CVE-2015-4601: PHP

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 8.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

PHP before 5.6.7 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via an unexpected data type, related to "type confusion" issues in (1) ext/soap/php_encoding.c, (2) ext/soap/php_http.c, and (3) ext/soap/soap.c, a different issue than CVE-2015-4600.

Affected products

• PHP PHP: up to and including 5.6.6
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node Eus: version 7.1 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: version 7.1 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only

Published 2016-05-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.