CVE-2015-2301

high
Published 2015-03-30 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the phar_rename_archive function in phar_object.c in PHP before 5.5.22 and 5.6.x before 5.6.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors that trigger an attempted renaming of a Phar archive to the name of an existing file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

debian Debian Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
7.0 Affected โ€”
macos macOS Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
โ€” Affected โ€”
redhat Red Hat Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
7.0 Affected โ€”
suse SUSE Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
13.2 Affected โ€”
13.1 Affected โ€”
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 4 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
14.10 Affected โ€”
14.04 Affected โ€”
12.04 Affected โ€”
10.04 Affected โ€”

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
php phpphp{"startIncluding":"5.4.0","endExcluding":"5.4.40"}5.4.40

References

CWEs

CWE-416

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.