CVE-2021-21702

Summary

CVECVE-2021-21702
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-02-15 04:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-12-10 17:58:00 UTC
DescriptionIn PHP versions 7.3.x below 7.3.27, 7.4.x below 7.4.15 and 8.0.x below 8.0.2, when using SOAP extension to connect to a SOAP server, a malicious SOAP server could return malformed XML data as a response that would cause PHP to access a null pointer and thus cause a crash.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-476

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Application Netapp Clustered Data Ontap - All All All
Application Oracle Communications Diameter Signaling Router All All All All
Application Php Php All All All All
Application Php Php All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
PHP :: Sec Bug #80672 :: Null Dereference in SoapClient CONFIRM bugs.php.net Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
February 2021 PHP Vulnerabilities in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
[SECURITY] [DLA 2708-1] php7.0 security update MLIST lists.debian.org
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
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - October 2021 MISC www.oracle.com
PHP: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202105-23) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
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: Reported by jgalindo at datto dot com

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 150382 PHP Multiple Vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-7071,CVE-2021-21702)
  • 159470 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for php:7.4 (ELSA-2021-4213)
  • 178707 Debian Security Update for php7.0 (DLA 2708-1)
  • 180436 Debian Security Update for php7.4 (CVE-2021-21702)
  • 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)
  • 296069 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 31.88.5 Missing (CPUJAN2021)
  • 378336 Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) Multiple Vulnerabilities
  • 38840 PHP Denial Of Service Vulnerability
  • 501142 Alpine Linux Security Update for php7
  • 501661 Alpine Linux Security Update for php7
  • 501669 Alpine Linux Security Update for php8
  • 670341 EulerOS Security Update for php (EulerOS-SA-2021-1883)
  • 710093 Gentoo Linux Hypertext Preprocessor Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202105-23)
  • 750355 OpenSUSE Security Update for php7 (openSUSE-SU-2021:0305-1)
  • 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)
  • 901791 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) (7324)
  • 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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