CVE-2022-31628: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In PHP versions before 7.4.31, 8.0.24 and 8.1.11, the phar uncompressor code would recursively uncompress "quines" gzip files, resulting in an infinite loop.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only; version 11.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 35 only; version 36 only; version 37 only
• PHP PHP: before 7.4.31 (fixed in 7.4.31); from 8.0.0, before 8.0.24 (fixed in 8.0.24); from 8.1.0, before 8.1.11 (fixed in 8.1.11)

Published 2022-09-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.