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CVE-2015-2787

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-2787 is a use-after-free vulnerability in PHP's unserialization process, affecting PHP versions before 5.4.39, 5.5.23, and 5.6.7, as well as products like Apple, openSUSE, and Red Hat that utilize these PHP versions. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code through a specially crafted unserialize call that leverages the unset function within a __wakeup function. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it is considered highly severe, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, potentially leading to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its high severity and EPSS score, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 5.4.38CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.5.0:alpha1:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.5.0:alpha2:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.5.0:alpha3:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
12.22%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1222 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (27)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: php54-php-pecl-zendopcache-0:7.0.4-3.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: php-0:5.3.3-46.el6_6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: php-0:5.4.16-36.el7_1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: php55-0:2.0-1.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: php55-php-0:5.5.21-2.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: php54-0:2.0-1.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: php54-php-0:5.4.40-1.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: php54-php-pecl-zendopcache-0:7.0.4-3.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 EUSFixed in: php55-0:2.0-1.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 EUSFixed in: php55-php-0:5.5.21-2.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 EUSFixed in: php54-0:2.0-1.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 EUSFixed in: php54-php-0:5.4.40-1.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 EUSFixed in: php54-php-pecl-zendopcache-0:7.0.4-3.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUSFixed in: php55-0:2.0-1.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUSFixed in: php55-php-0:5.5.21-2.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUSFixed in: php54-0:2.0-1.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUSFixed in: php54-php-0:5.4.40-1.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUSFixed in: php54-php-pecl-zendopcache-0:7.0.4-3.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: php55-0:2.0-1.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: php55-php-0:5.5.21-2.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: php54-0:2.0-1.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: php54-php-0:5.4.40-1.el7
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applevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
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redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: php
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: php54-php
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: php55-php
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: php53

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-2787Moderate

php: use-after-free vulnerability in the process_nested_data function in ext/standard/var_unserializer.re

Mar 2, 2015

References

lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2015/Aug/msg00001.html
Vendor Advisory
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html
Vendor Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00005.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00015.html
marc.info
marc.info
php.net / ChangeLog-5.php
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1053.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1066.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1135.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1218.html
bugs.php.net / bug.php
Exploit
gist.github.com / smalyshev/eea9eafc7c88a4a6d10d
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201606-10
support.apple.com / HT205267
Vendor Advisory
support.apple.com / kb/HT205031
Vendor Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
securityfocus.com / bid/73431
securitytracker.com / id/1032485
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2572-1