CVE-2026-17545

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
PHP GroupPHP8.2.* < 8.2.34affected
PHP GroupPHP8.3.* < 8.3.35affected
PHP GroupPHP8.4.* < 8.4.26affected
PHP GroupPHP8.5.* < 8.5.11affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-67: CWE-67 Improper handling of windows device names

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: poc
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

Additional References

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