CVE-2026-7260

Circular symbolic links in phar archives could lead to unbounded recursion, exhausting the C stack and crashing the PHP process, in PHP versions from 8.2.* before 8.2.33, from 8.3.* before 8.3.33, from 8.4.* before 8.4.24, and from 8.5.* before 8.5.9.

CVSS v3 5.5 MEDIUM

5.5^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.8 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/php/php-src/security/advisories/GHSA-vc5h-9ppw-p5f3	Vendor Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:php:php::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:php:php::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:php:php::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:php:php::::::::

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-07-30 12:19

Updated : 2026-08-05 19:39

NVD link : CVE-2026-7260

Mitre link : CVE-2026-7260

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-7260

JSON object : View

Products Affected

php

php

CWE

CWE-121

Stack-based Buffer Overflow

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