CVE-2019-9020 — Vulnetix

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CVE-2019-9020 PUBLISHED

An issue was discovered in PHP before 5.6.40, 7.x before 7.1.26, 7.2.x before 7.2.14, and 7.3.x before 7.3.1. Invalid input to the function xmlrpc_decode() can lead to an invalid memory access (heap out of bounds read or read after free). This is related to xml_elem_parse_buf in ext/xmlrpc/libxmlrpc/xml_element.c.

EPSS 2.39% · 84.9th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

2.39%

84.9th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS	php7.2	7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 7.2.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.2, 7.2.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS	php5	5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4, 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.1, 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.2
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS	php7.0	7.0.3-9ubuntu1, 7.0.4-5ubuntu1, 7.0.4-5ubuntu2

Timeline

CVE Published
Nov 9, 2020 PoC Published
Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
Jan 6, 2022 EPSS Score
Apr 1, 2022 EPSS Score
Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
Mar 29, 2025 EPSS Score
Mar 30, 2025 EPSS Score
May 1, 2025 EPSS Score
May 4, 2025 EPSS Score
Jun 1, 2025 EPSS Score
Jun 4, 2025 EPSS Score

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-9020 third-party-advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3902-1 vendor-advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3902-2 vendor-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-9020 third-party-advisory

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