VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2013-3735

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability2.83%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2013-05-31
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

The Zend Engine in PHP before 5.4.16 RC1, and 5.5.0 before RC2, does not properly determine whether a parser error occurred, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via a crafted function definition, as demonstrated by an attack within a shared web-hosting environment. NOTE: the vendor's http://php.net/security-note.php page says "for critical security situations you should be using OS-level security by running multiple web servers each as their own user id.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

Primary references