CVE-2026-17545

Publication date 25 September 2026

Last updated 30 September 2026


Ubuntu priority

Description

On Windows, PHP's filesystem and stream APIs do not reject reserved device names such as CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1 to COM9, LPT1 to LPT9, CONIN$ and CONOUT$ when they appear as a component of a path. An attacker-controlled filename therefore reaches CreateFileW() and opens a device instead of the regular file the application expected, which can block or hang the request and exhaust worker processes.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
php5 26.04 LTS resolute Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty
Needs evaluation
php7.0 26.04 LTS resolute Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
php7.2 26.04 LTS resolute Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
php7.4 26.04 LTS resolute Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal
Needs evaluation
php8.1 26.04 LTS resolute Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy
Needs evaluation
php8.3 26.04 LTS resolute Not in release
24.04 LTS noble
Needs evaluation
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
php8.5 26.04 LTS resolute
Needs evaluation
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release

Notes


sbeattie

PEAR issues should go against php-pear as of xenial PEAR issues should go against php-pear as of xenial

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v4.0

Base score 6.9 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H


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