CVE-2015-0231: PHP

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 42.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Use-after-free vulnerability in the process_nested_data function in ext/standard/var_unserializer.re in PHP before 5.4.37, 5.5.x before 5.5.21, and 5.6.x before 5.6.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted unserialize call that leverages improper handling of duplicate numerical keys within the serialized properties of an object. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-8142.

Affected products

• PHP PHP: up to and including 5.4.36; version 5.4.0 only; version 5.4.1 only; version 5.4.2 only; version 5.4.3 only; version 5.4.4 only; …

Published 2015-01-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.