CVE-2009-1271: PHP

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The JSON_parser function (ext/json/JSON_parser.c) in PHP 5.2.x before 5.2.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a malformed string to the json_decode API function.

Affected products

• PHP PHP: version 5.2.0 only; version 5.2.1 only; version 5.2.2 only; version 5.2.3 only; version 5.2.4 only; version 5.2.5 only; …

Published 2009-04-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.