Out-of-bounds Write Affecting php package, versions [7.3.0,7.3.31][7.4.0,7.4.25)[8.0.0,8.0.12)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.31% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PHP-2335691
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed25 Oct 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Oct 2021

CVE-2021-21703  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade php to version 7.4.25, 8.0.12 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. In PHP versions 7.3.x up to and including 7.3.31, 7.4.x below 7.4.25 and 8.0.x below 8.0.12, when running PHP FPM SAPI with main FPM daemon process running as root and child worker processes running as lower-privileged users, it is possible for the child processes to access memory shared with the main process and write to it, modifying it in a way that would cause the root process to conduct invalid memory reads and writes, which can be used to escalate privileges from local unprivileged user to the root user.

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