CVE-2016-10397
php: Incorrect handling of URI components in URL parser
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · September 28, 2016
Updated · May 13, 2026
Description
In PHP before 5.6.28 and 7.x before 7.0.13, incorrect handling of various URI components in the URL parser could be used by attackers to bypass hostname-specific URL checks, as demonstrated by evil.example.com:80#@good.example.com/ and evil.example.com:[email protected]/ inputs to the parse_url function (implemented in the php_url_parse_ex function in ext/standard/url.c).
Statement
Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.
CVSS score applicability
The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.
Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 5.4CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE-228 · Improper Handling of Syntactically Invalid Structure