vulnerability

PHP Vulnerability: CVE-2021-21702

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 15, 2021
Added
Mar 12, 2021
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

In PHP versions 7.3.x below 7.3.27, 7.4.x below 7.4.15 and 8.0.x below 8.0.2, when using SOAP extension to connect to a SOAP server, a malicious SOAP server could return malformed XML data as a response that would cause PHP to access a null pointer and thus cause a crash.

Solutions

php-upgrade-7_3_26php-upgrade-7_4_14php-upgrade-8_0_1
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