CVE-2012-2376: PHP

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 19.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the com_print_typeinfo function in PHP 5.4.3 and earlier on Windows allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted arguments that trigger incorrect handling of COM object VARIANT types, as exploited in the wild in May 2012.

Affected products

• PHP PHP: up to and including 5.4.3; version 1.0 only; version 2.0 only; version 2.0b10 only; version 3.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; …

Published 2012-05-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.