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CVE-2019-9020

35
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-9020 is a critical vulnerability affecting PHP versions prior to 5.6.40, 7.1.26, 7.2.14, and 7.3.1, specifically within the xmlrpc_decode() function. Invalid input can trigger an invalid memory access (heap out-of-bounds read or use-after-free), impacting products from Canonical, Debian, NetApp, openSUSE, and PHP itself. Rated with a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable with low attack complexity, requiring no user interaction or privileges. Successful exploitation could lead to high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. Despite its severity, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, suggesting it is not widely targeted.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 5.6.40CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 7.0.0, < 7.1.26CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 7.2.0, < 7.2.14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 7.3.0, < 7.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
10.06%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1006 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 36,897 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (11)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: php:7.2-8020020191108065827.2c7ca891
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-php71-php-0:7.1.30-1.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-php72-php-0:7.2.24-1.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 EUSFixed in: rh-php71-php-0:7.1.30-1.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 EUSFixed in: rh-php71-php-0:7.1.30-1.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 EUSFixed in: rh-php72-php-0:7.2.24-1.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 EUSFixed in: rh-php71-php-0:7.1.30-1.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 EUSFixed in: rh-php72-php-0:7.2.24-1.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 EUSFixed in: rh-php72-php-0:7.2.24-1.el7
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redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: php
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: rh-php70-php

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-9020Moderate

php: Invalid memory access in function xmlrpc_decode()

Dec 5, 2018

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00083.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00104.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00041.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00044.html
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:2519
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:3299
bugs.php.net / bug.php
ExploitIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
bugs.php.net / bug.php
ExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20190321-0001
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3902-1
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3902-2
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2019/dsa-4398
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/107156
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry