CVE-2007-1581: PHP

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 7.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The resource system in PHP 5.0.0 through 5.2.1 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by interrupting the hash_update_file function via a userspace (1) error or (2) stream handler, which can then be used to destroy and modify internal resources. NOTE: it was later reported that PHP 5.2 through 5.2.13 and 5.3 through 5.3.2 are also affected.

Affected products

• PHP PHP: version 5.0 only; version 5.0.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.0.2 only; version 5.0.3 only; version 5.0.4 only; …

Published 2007-03-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.