CVE-2014-9427

high
Published 2015-01-03 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
7.5
VIR risk
7.5

Description

sapi/cgi/cgi_main.c in the CGI component in PHP through 5.4.36, 5.5.x through 5.5.20, and 5.6.x through 5.6.4, when mmap is used to read a .php file, does not properly consider the mapping's length during processing of an invalid file that begins with a # character and lacks a newline character, which causes an out-of-bounds read and might (1) allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from php-cgi process memory by leveraging the ability to upload a .php file or (2) trigger unexpected code execution if a valid PHP script is present in memory locations adjacent to the mapping.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
php phpphp3.0.17
php phpphp3.0.18
php phpphp4.0
php phpphp4.0.0
php phpphp1.0
php phpphp2.0
php phpphp2.0b10
php phpphp3.0
php phpphp3.0.1
php phpphp3.0.2
php phpphp3.0.3
php phpphp3.0.4
php phpphp3.0.5
php phpphp3.0.6
php phpphp3.0.7
php phpphp3.0.8
php phpphp3.0.9
php phpphp3.0.10
php phpphp3.0.11
php phpphp3.0.12
php phpphp3.0.13
php phpphp3.0.14
php phpphp3.0.15
php phpphp3.0.16
php phpphp4.0.1
php phpphp4.0.2
php phpphp4.0.3
php phpphp4.0.4
php phpphp4.0.5
php phpphp4.0.6
php phpphp4.0.7
php phpphp4.1.0
php phpphp4.1.1
php phpphp4.1.2
php phpphp4.2.0
php phpphp4.2.1
php phpphp4.2.2
php phpphp4.2.3
php phpphp4.3.0
php phpphp4.3.1
php phpphp4.3.2
php phpphp4.3.3
php phpphp4.3.4
php phpphp4.3.5
php phpphp4.3.6
php phpphp4.3.7
php phpphp4.3.8
php phpphp4.3.9
php phpphp4.3.10
php phpphp4.3.11
php phpphp4.4.0
php phpphp4.4.1
php phpphp4.4.2
php phpphp4.4.3
php phpphp4.4.4
php phpphp4.4.5
php phpphp4.4.6
php phpphp4.4.7
php phpphp4.4.8
php phpphp4.4.9
php phpphp5.0.0
php phpphp5.0.1
php phpphp5.0.2
php phpphp5.0.3
php phpphp5.0.4
php phpphp5.0.5
php phpphp5.1.0
php phpphp5.1.1
php phpphp5.1.2
php phpphp5.1.3
php phpphp5.1.4
php phpphp5.1.5
php phpphp5.1.6
php phpphp5.2.0
php phpphp5.2.1
php phpphp5.2.2
php phpphp5.2.3
php phpphp5.2.4
php phpphp5.2.5
php phpphp5.2.6
php phpphp5.2.7
php phpphp5.2.8
php phpphp5.2.9
php phpphp5.2.10
php phpphp5.2.11
php phpphp5.2.12
php phpphp5.2.13
php phpphp5.2.14
php phpphp5.2.15
php phpphp5.2.16
php phpphp5.2.17
php phpphp5.3.0
php phpphp5.3.1
php phpphp5.3.2
php phpphp5.3.3
php phpphp5.3.4
php phpphp5.3.5
php phpphp5.3.6
php phpphp5.3.7
php phpphp5.3.8
php phpphp5.3.9
php phpphp5.3.10
php phpphp5.3.11
php phpphp5.3.12
php phpphp5.3.13
php phpphp5.3.14
php phpphp5.3.15
php phpphp5.3.16
php phpphp5.3.17
php phpphp5.3.18
php phpphp5.3.19
php phpphp5.3.20
php phpphp5.3.21
php phpphp5.3.22
php phpphp5.3.23
php phpphp5.3.24
php phpphp5.3.25
php phpphp5.3.26
php phpphp5.3.27
php phpphp5.3.28
php phpphp5.4.0
php phpphp5.4.1
php phpphp5.4.2
php phpphp5.4.3
php phpphp5.4.10
php phpphp5.4.11
php phpphp5.4.12
php phpphp5.4.13
php phpphp5.4.14
php phpphp5.4.15
php phpphp5.4.16
php phpphp5.4.17
php phpphp5.4.18
php phpphp5.4.19
php phpphp5.4.20
php phpphp5.4.21
php phpphp5.4.22
php phpphp5.4.23
php phpphp5.4.24
php phpphp5.4.25
php phpphp5.4.26
php phpphp5.4.27
php phpphp5.4.28
php phpphp5.4.29
php phpphp5.4.30
php phpphp5.4.34
php phpphp5.4.35
php phpphp5.4.36
php phpphp5.5.0
php phpphp5.5.1
php phpphp5.5.2
php phpphp5.5.3
php phpphp5.5.4
php phpphp5.5.5
php phpphp5.5.6
php phpphp5.5.7
php phpphp5.5.8
php phpphp5.5.9
php phpphp5.5.10
php phpphp5.5.11
php phpphp5.5.12
php phpphp5.5.13
php phpphp5.5.14
php phpphp5.5.18
php phpphp5.5.19
php phpphp5.5.20
php phpphp5.6.0
php phpphp5.6.2
php phpphp5.6.3
php phpphp5.6.4

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.