CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-4418
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-12-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-189
Description
The unserialize function in PHP 5.3.0 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a deeply nested serialized variable, as demonstrated by a string beginning with a:1: followed by many {a:1: sequences.
Affected configurations
• php php (<= 5.3.0)
• php php 5
• php php 5.0
• php php 5.0.0
• php php 5.0.1
• php php 5.0.2
• php php 5.0.3
• php php 5.0.4
• php php 5.0.5
• php php 5.1.0
• php php 5.1.1
• php php 5.1.2
• php php 5.1.3
• php php 5.1.4
• php php 5.1.5
• php php 5.1.6
• php php 5.2.0
• php php 5.2.1
• php php 5.2.2
• php php 5.2.3
• php php 5.2.4
• php php 5.2.5
• php php 5.2.6
• php php 5.2.7
• php php 5.2.8
• php php 5.2.9
• php php 5.2.10
• php php 5.2.11
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.suspekt.org/2009/11/28/shocking-news-in-php-exploitation/ www.suspekt.org
- http://www.suspekt.org/downloads/POC2009-ShockingNewsInPHPExploitation.pdf www.suspekt.org
- http://www.suspekt.org/2009/11/28/shocking-news-in-php-exploitation/ www.suspekt.org
- http://www.suspekt.org/downloads/POC2009-ShockingNewsInPHPExploitation.pdf www.suspekt.org