CVE-2026-7260

🔶 medium

Summary

Circular symbolic links in phar archives could lead to unbounded recursion, exhausting the C stack and crashing the PHP process, in PHP versions from 8.2.* before 8.2.33, from 8.3.* before 8.3.33, from 8.4.* before 8.4.24, and from 8.5.* before 8.5.9.

CVSS Score

5.5

Medium

EPSS Score

0.2

Exploit Probability

Published Date

2026-07-30

First Seen: 2026-07-31

📊 Relative Risk Intelligence

This CVE is Lower Risk - more severe than 31.5% of all 350,976 vulnerabilities in our database.

#240,393

Below average severity

Severity Percentile

🎯 CISA SSVC Assessment Updated: Jul 30, 2026

🔍 Exploitation Status

None

No known exploits

⚙️ Automatable

Requires human interaction

💥 Technical Impact

Partial

Limited system impact

🏆 Discovered By

Calvin Young - eWalker Consulting (HK) Limited Enoch Chow - Isomorph Cyber Jakub Zelenka - The PHP Foundation (remediation developer)

SSVC data provided by CISA

Last Modified 2026-08-05

Source NVD 🔗

CVSS Vector 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS Vector 4.0

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H/E:U/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

CWE IDs (Weakness Types)

CWE-121

📦 Affected Products 4

Vendor	Product	Status	Affected Versions
php	php	Affected	> 8.2.0 < 8.2.33
php	php	Affected	> 8.3.0 < 8.3.33
php	php	Affected	> 8.4.0 < 8.4.24
php	php	Affected	> 8.5.0 < 8.5.9

🔗 References 1

https://github.com/php/php-src/security/advisories/G...

Vendor Advisory

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