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CVE-2015-6837

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-6837 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting PHP versions before 5.4.45, 5.5.29, and 5.6.13 when used with libxml2 versions before 2.9.2. It stems from a NULL pointer dereference during error handling in the XSLT processor, triggered by a crafted XML document. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), this vulnerability can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, leading to an application crash. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.6.0:alpha1:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.6.0:alpha2:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.6.0:alpha3:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.6.0:alpha4:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.6.0:alpha5:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
6.57%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0657 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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 (12)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: rh-php56-php-0:5.6.5-8.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUSFixed in: rh-php56-php-0:5.6.5-8.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUSFixed in: rh-php56-php-0:5.6.5-8.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-php56-php-0:5.6.5-8.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 EUSFixed in: rh-php56-php-0:5.6.5-8.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 EUSFixed in: rh-php56-php-0:5.6.5-8.el7
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redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: php
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: php53
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: php
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: php
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: php54-php
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: php55-php

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-6837Low

php: NULL pointer dereference in XSLTProcessor class

Jun 9, 2015

References

php.net / ChangeLog-5.php
bugs.php.net / bug.php
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201606-10
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3358
securityfocus.com / bid/76738
securitytracker.com / id/1033548