Use After Free Affecting php package, versions [8.2.0 ,8.2.31)[8.3.0,8.3.31)[8.4.0,8.4.21)[8.5.0,8.5.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.89% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PHP-16624453
  • published10 May 2026
  • disclosed10 May 2026
  • creditbrettgervasoni

Introduced: 10 May 2026

CVE-2026-6722  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade php to version 8.2.31, 8.3.31, 8.4.21, 8.5.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free in the object deduplication process of the SOAP extension, which stores pointers to objects in a global map without incrementing their reference counts. An attacker can execute arbitrary code by crafting a SOAP request body that causes a freed object pointer to be reused, potentially allowing remote code execution.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1