CVE-2016-1903
Status: ModifiedCritical (9.1)—
Severity9.1Critical · CVSS 3.0
Exploitation probability7.81 %higher than 95% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitNot knownno public code found
The gdImageRotateInterpolated function in ext/gd/libgd/gd_interpolation.c in PHP before 5.5.31, 5.6.x before 5.6.17, and 7.x before 7.0.2 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a large bgd_color argument to the imagerotate function.
CVSS
- Base score
- 9.1
- Version
- 3.0
- Vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- 7.81 %
- Percentile among all scored CVEs
- 95
- Score date
- 10/21/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Affected technologies (1)
CWEs
- CWE-119, CWE-200
References
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- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00099.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00037.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/14/8
- http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
- http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-7.php
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79916
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034608
- http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2016&m=slackware-security.461720
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2952-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2952-2
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=70976
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00099.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00037.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/14/8
- http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
- http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-7.php
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79916
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034608
- http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2016&m=slackware-security.461720
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2952-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2952-2
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=70976
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731
Raw JSON (NVD)
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