CVE-2016-7126

Status: ModifiedCritical (9.8)—
The imagetruecolortopalette function in ext/gd/gd.c in PHP before 5.6.25 and 7.x before 7.0.10 does not properly validate the number of colors, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (select_colors allocation error and out-of-bounds write) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a large value in the third argument.
CVSS

Version: 3.1
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Base score: 9.8
Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 8.82%
Percentile among all scored CVEs: 95
Score date: 10/18/2026
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)

PHP — PHP
CWEs

CWE-787
References

Raw JSON (NVD)

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