CVE-2015-4600

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

CVSS v2

10.0

VIR risk

9.8

Description

The SoapClient implementation 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 cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via an unexpected data type, related to "type confusion" issues in the (1) SoapClient::__getLastRequest, (2) SoapClient::__getLastResponse, (3) SoapClient::__getLastRequestHeaders, (4) SoapClient::__getLastResponseHeaders, (5) SoapClient::__getCookies, and (6) SoapClient::__setCookie methods.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

97%

Patch ETA

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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

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
rhel	7.0	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
php	php	`{"endIncluding":"5.4.39"}`
php	php	`5.5.0`
php	php	`5.5.1`
php	php	`5.5.2`
php	php	`5.5.3`
php	php	`5.5.4`
php	php	`5.5.5`
php	php	`5.5.6`
php	php	`5.5.7`
php	php	`5.5.8`
php	php	`5.5.9`
php	php	`5.5.10`
php	php	`5.5.11`
php	php	`5.5.12`
php	php	`5.5.13`
php	php	`5.5.14`
php	php	`5.5.15`
php	php	`5.5.16`
php	php	`5.5.17`
php	php	`5.5.18`
php	php	`5.5.19`
php	php	`5.5.20`
php	php	`5.5.21`
php	php	`5.5.22`
php	php	`5.5.23`
php	php	`5.6.0`
php	php	`5.6.1`
php	php	`5.6.2`
php	php	`5.6.3`
php	php	`5.6.4`
php	php	`5.6.5`
php	php	`5.6.6`
php	php	`5.6.7`

References

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