CVE-2015-4599

critical
Published 2016-05-16 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
VIR risk
9.8

Description

The SoapFault::__toString method in ext/soap/soap.c in PHP before 5.4.40, 5.5.x before 5.5.24, and 5.6.x before 5.6.8 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service (application crash), or possibly execute arbitrary code via an unexpected data type, related to a "type confusion" issue.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
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.

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
redhat rhel7.0affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
php phpphp{"endIncluding":"5.4.39"}
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 phpphp5.5.15
php phpphp5.5.16
php phpphp5.5.17
php phpphp5.5.18
php phpphp5.5.19
php phpphp5.5.20
php phpphp5.5.21
php phpphp5.5.22
php phpphp5.5.23
php phpphp5.6.0
php phpphp5.6.1
php phpphp5.6.2
php phpphp5.6.3
php phpphp5.6.4
php phpphp5.6.5
php phpphp5.6.6
php phpphp5.6.7

References

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