CVE-2007-1399: PHP

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 20.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the zip:// URL wrapper in PECL ZIP 1.8.3 and earlier, as bundled with PHP 5.2.0 and 5.2.1, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long zip:// URL, as demonstrated by actively triggering URL access from a remote PHP interpreter via avatar upload or blog pingback.

Affected products

• PHP PHP: version 5.2.0 only; version 5.2.1 only
• Pierrejoye PHP Zip: before 1.8.4 (fixed in 1.8.4)

Published 2007-03-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.