CVE-2020-7068

Summary

CVECVE-2020-7068
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-09-09 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-07-01 12:18:00 UTC
DescriptionIn PHP versions 7.2.x below 7.2.33, 7.3.x below 7.3.21 and 7.4.x below 7.4.9, while processing PHAR files using phar extension, phar_parse_zipfile could be tricked into accessing freed memory, which could lead to a crash or information disclosure.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-416

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Application Php Php All All All All
Application Php Php All All All All
Application Tenable Tenable.sc All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CVE-2020-7068 PHP Vulnerability in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com Third Party Advisory
PHP: Denial of service (GLSA 202009-10) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
PHP :: Sec Bug #79797 :: Use of freed hash key in the phar_parse_zipfile function CONFIRM bugs.php.net Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4856-1 php7.3 DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
[R1] Tenable.sc 5.19.0 Fixes Multiple Third-party Vulnerabilities - Security Advisory | Tenable® CONFIRM www.tenable.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: grigoritchy at gmail dot com

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159470 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for php:7.4 (ELSA-2021-4213)
  • 198429 Ubuntu Security Notification for Hypertext Preprocessor vulnerabilities (USN-5006-1)
  • 239528 Red Hat Update for rh-php73-php (RHSA-2021:2992)
  • 239829 Red Hat Update for php:7.4 security (RHSA-2021:4213)
  • 690474 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for php72 (ee261034-b95e-4479-b947-08b0877e029f)
  • 752878 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for php7 (SUSE-SU-2022:4067-1)
  • 752898 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for php7 (SUSE-SU-2022:4069-1)
  • 752901 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for php74 (SUSE-SU-2022:4068-1)
  • 940558 AlmaLinux Security Update for php:7.4 (ALSA-2021:4213)
  • 960309 Rocky Linux Security Update for php:7.4 (RLSA-2021:4213)
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