CVE-2016-9138

critical

Published 2017-01-04 · Modified 2026-05-06

💬 Discuss on Community ✚ Propose mitigation

CVSS v3

9.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

—

not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.8

Description

PHP through 5.6.27 and 7.x through 7.0.12 mishandles property modification during __wakeup processing, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted serialized data, as demonstrated by Exception::__toString with DateInterval::__wakeup.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

97%

Patch ETA

—

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 — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Arch Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Fixed	`7.0.13-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
php	php	`{"endIncluding":"5.6.27"}`
php	php	`7.0.0`
php	php	`7.0.1`
php	php	`7.0.2`
php	php	`7.0.3`
php	php	`7.0.4`
php	php	`7.0.5`
php	php	`7.0.6`
php	php	`7.0.7`
php	php	`7.0.8`
php	php	`7.0.9`
php	php	`7.0.10`
php	php	`7.0.11`
php	php	`7.0.12`

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.