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CVE-2016-3185

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-3185 is a type confusion vulnerability affecting PHP versions before 5.4.44, 5.5.28, 5.6.12, and 7.0.4. It resides in the make_http_soap_request function within the SOAP extension, specifically when handling crafted serialized _cookies data via the SoapClient::__call method. This vulnerability carries a CVSS v3 score of 7.1 (High), indicating that a low-privilege local attacker can achieve high confidentiality impact by obtaining sensitive information from process memory or cause a high availability impact through a denial of service (application crash). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage 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

7.1HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.15%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0315 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 16,994 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (7)

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
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: rh-php56-php

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-3185Moderate

php: Type confusion vulnerability in make_http_soap_request()

Feb 16, 2016

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00052.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00056.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00057.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00058.html
php.net / ChangeLog-5.php
php.net / ChangeLog-7.php
bugs.php.net / bug.php
bugs.php.net / bug.php
git.php.net
securityfocus.com / bid/84307
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2952-1
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2952-2