Cyber Resilience

CVE-2007-1285

HighPublic PoCDDoS

Published: 06 March 2007

Published
06 March 2007
Modified
23 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0568 90.6th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2007-1285 is a high-severity Uncontrolled Recursion (CWE-674) vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Linux Server. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 9.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The Zend Engine in PHP 4.x before 4.4.7, and 5.x before 5.2.2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion and PHP crash) via deeply nested arrays, which trigger deep recursion in the variable destruction routines.

CWE(s)
CWE-674

Related Threats

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Affected Assets

php
php
4.0.0 — 4.4.7 · 5.0.0 — 5.2.2
canonical
ubuntu linux
7.10
novell
suse linux
10.0, 10.1
suse
linux enterprise server
10, 8
redhat
enterprise linux desktop
3.0, 4.0
redhat
enterprise linux server
2.0, 3.0, 4.0
redhat
enterprise linux workstation
2.0, 3.0, 4.0

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

CP-7 Alternate Processing Site
addresses: CWE-674

Supports resumption at alternate site when uncontrolled recursion causes primary site failure or crash.

SC-5 Denial-of-service Protection
addresses: CWE-674

Prevents uncontrolled recursion that exhausts stack or CPU resources.

References