OOB read / info leak in convert.* stream filters when line-break-chars contains NUL (CVE-2026-92842)
Published Last modified Sources: Red Hat, SUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, BSI, Msrc Update Guide, CVE.org, OSV
What is affected, what to do
A flaw was found in PHP. When processing certain conversion stream filters with line-break settings containing a null byte, the filter duplicates the string but retains the original length rather than the truncated size.
Update PHP to version 8.2.34, PHP to version 8.3.35, PHP to version 8.4.26.
- Affected
- PHP
lt 8.2.0..8.2.34 - PHP
lt 8.3.0..8.3.35 - PHP
lt 8.4.0..8.4.26 - PHP
lt 8.5.0..8.5.11
- PHP
- Fixed in
- PHP
8.2.34 - PHP
8.3.35 - PHP
8.4.26 - PHP
8.5.11
- PHP
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Metrics
5.9
Priority
XIEM Effective CVSS: highest available CVSS rating from NVD and vendor data.
Source: Vendor (CNA), CVSS v3
5.9
CVSS v3
Severity Medium on the scale from 0 to 10.
Source: Red Hat, SUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, BSI, Msrc Update Guide, CVE.org, OSV
0.4 %
EPSS score
Low — model estimates < 1% exploitation likelihood.
Source: FIRST EPSS, percentile 28.1
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- Severity
- Medium
Priority (0–325)
The priority score is a consolidated metric that condenses several individual signals into a single, action-guiding ranking: technical severity (CVSS), exploitation likelihood (EPSS), known-exploited status (KEV) and the context of the affected asset. The aim is to answer the only truly important question in vulnerability management: what first?
Read in glossary- 65.82 Methodology
Exploit maturity
An exploit is code or a technique that specifically uses a concrete vulnerability to force unintended behaviour — such as executing code or escalating privileges. It is the tool that turns a theoretical flaw into a practical attack.
Read in glossary- no public PoC known
XIEM Effective CVSS
XIEM® is the tiered managed-security operating model from NEOSEC and a registered trademark of NEOSEC GmbH. It extends classic SIEM — the central collection, normalisation and correlation of security-relevant events — with endpoint forensics, network visibility and deception technology, and consolidates them into three building tiers: Sentry, Orchestrate and Command.
Read in glossary- 5.9 Methodology
CVSS v3
CVSS is the globally established, open standard for assessing the technical severity of a vulnerability on a scale from 0 to 10. It describes how easily a flaw can be exploited and what damage it can cause — but not how likely its actual exploitation is. CVSS and the complementary EPSS deliberately answer different questions.
Read in glossary- 5.9
EPSS score
The EPSS score is the absolute model output for an individual vulnerability: the estimated probability of real-world exploitation within the next 30 days, expressed as a value between 0 and 1 (i.e. 0 % to 100 %). A score of 0.42 means „the model estimates a 42 % chance of real-world exploitation within 30 days“.
Read in glossary- 0.4 %
- Low — model estimates < 1% exploitation likelihood.
EPSS percentile
The EPSS percentile is the relative position of a vulnerability within all EPSS-scored CVEs, expressed as a value between 0 and 1. A percentile of 0.90 means „this CVE has a higher EPSS score than 90 % of all other scored CVEs“. Unlike the EPSS score, it is not a probability — but a positioning within a ranking.
Read in glossary- 28.1
- Elevated — this CVE ranks above at least 10% of all CVEs scored today.
KEV status
The KEV catalogue is a list maintained by the US authority CISA of vulnerabilities for which active exploitation in the wild has been confirmed. It answers not the question „how severe?“ but „is it already being attacked?“ — thereby sharply prioritising patching.
Read in glossary- —
- Published
CWE
CWE is a catalogue of typical weakness types in software and hardware — such as flawed input validation, unsafe memory handling or poor authentication. Where a CVE names a concrete vulnerability in a concrete product, a CWE describes the underlying class of defect.
Read in glossary- CWE-122, CWE-125
Detection rules
No NEOSEC detection rule is available for this vulnerability yet.
Classification under NIS2 and CRA
Rule-based classification from exploitation status and severity. It does not replace a case-by-case assessment.
NIS2
NIS2 is EU Directive (EU) 2022/2555 to raise the level of cybersecurity across the Union. It substantially broadens obligations compared with the first NIS directive: more sectors, mandatory risk management, staged reporting duties and personal accountability of senior management.
Read in glossary- Handle the vulnerability in regular vulnerability handling under Art. 21(2)(e) NIS2.
CRA
The CRA is EU Regulation (EU) 2024/2847 setting horizontal cybersecurity requirements for „products with digital elements“ — from industrial controllers and software to connected consumer devices. For the first time manufacturers must ensure security across the entire product lifecycle, handle vulnerabilities and provide security updates.
Read in glossary- From 11.12.2027, Annex I Part II CRA requires manufacturers of affected products with digital elements to handle vulnerabilities without delay and provide security updates.
ISO/IEC 27001
ISO/IEC 27001 is the internationally leading standard for an information security management system (ISMS). It describes a risk-based, process-oriented framework to systematically plan, implement, review and improve information security.
Read in glossary- Control A.8.8, management of technical vulnerabilities: assess relevance to your systems, plan remediation and keep evidence.
Description
A flaw was found in PHP. When processing certain conversion stream filters with line-break settings containing a null byte, the filter duplicates the string but retains the original length rather than the truncated size. An attacker who can influence filter options could exploit this out-of-bounds read, leading to information disclosure by leaking sensitive heap memory contents into the output stream.
Source: redhat_csaf, suse_csaf, Debian Security Advisories, Ubuntu Security Notices, BSI WID Portal, BSI CSAF, Microsoft Security Update Guide, NVD (NIST), CVE.org (MITRE), cvelistv5, OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
Affected products
The following versions are affected. Older releases of the same product line are also vulnerable unless stated otherwise.
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHP Group | PHP |
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| Open Source | PHP |
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Distribution and container packages (4)
Downstream packages (e.g. Bitnami, Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat). Versions refer to the distribution, not the vendor.
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| bitnami | php-min |
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Affected operating systems
| Family | Vendor | Product | Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | ubuntu | php5 | trusty |
| Linux | ubuntu | php7.0 | xenial |
| Linux | ubuntu | php7.2 | bionic |
| Linux | ubuntu | php7.4 | focal |
| Linux | ubuntu | php8.1 | jammy |
| Linux | ubuntu | php8.3 | noble |
| Linux | ubuntu | php8.5 | resolute |
| Linux | ubuntu | php8.5 | stonking |
Weakness classes (CWE)
CWE-122Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Variant
A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().
Entry at MITRE CWE-122CWE-125Out-of-bounds Read
Base
The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.
Entry at MITRE CWE-125
References & sources
- github.comphp/php-src/security/advisories/GHSA-88hq-2827-7pg6Vendor advisory
- NVD (NIST)vuln/detail/CVE-2026-92842web
Reanalysis & status changes
Chronological NVD audit events for this CVE — reanalyses, CVSS updates, CPE diffs.
CVE Modified134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
- SSVC: after {"id":"CVE-2026-92842","role":"CISA Coordinator","options":[{"exploitation":"none"},{"automatable":"no"},{"technicalI…
New CVE Receivedsecurity@php.net
- Description: after The convert.base64-encode, convert.quoted-printable-encode and convert.quoted-printable-decode stream filters accept a line-break-chars option whose length is tracked separately from the string itself. The filter constructors duplicate the value with pestrdup(), which stops at the first NUL byte, while keeping the original length. When the filter later emits a line break it copies the recorded length out of the truncated allocation, reading past its end and placing adjacent heap bytes into the filter output.
- CVSS V3.1: after AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CWE: after CWE-125
- CWE: after CWE-122
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