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CVE-2022-4900 — A vulnerability was found in PHP where setting the environment variable PHP_CLI_

A vulnerability was found in PHP where setting the environment variable PHP_CLI_SERVER_WORKERS to a large value leads to a heap buffer overflow.

CVSS
6.2 MEDIUM
EPSS
0.08% (top 75.90%)
CWE
CWE-119
Published
2023-11-02T15:01:28.590Z
Last modified
2025-11-03T21:46:48.606Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

01What is this vulnerability?

A vulnerability was found in PHP where setting the environment variable PHP_CLI_SERVER_WORKERS to a large value leads to a heap buffer overflow.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
na / php8.0.22
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 6unspecified
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 7unspecified
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 8unspecified
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 8unspecified
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 9unspecified
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 9unspecified
Red HatRed Hat Software Collectionsunspecified
FedoraFedoraunspecified

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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