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CVE-2016-5773

CRITICAL severity · CVSS 9.8 · Use-after-free
9.8CVSS CRITICAL

Summary

php_zip.c in the zip extension in PHP before 5.5.37, 5.6.x before 5.6.23, and 7.x before 7.0.8 improperly interacts with the unserialize implementation and garbage collection, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (use-after-free and application crash) via crafted serialized data containing a ZipArchive object.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)16%

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

Affected products we track (1)

PHP

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php ↗

Last checked: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:18:30 UTC