
AI-assisted exploit turns PHP memory error into server code execution
PHP2Shell vulnerability in legacy PHP allows arbitrary code execution via out-of-memory error, discovered and patched with AI tools before any exploitation.
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PHP2Shell vulnerability in legacy PHP allows arbitrary code execution via out-of-memory error, discovered and patched with AI tools before any exploitation.
Code-generated readers size arrays from a sender-declared count checked only against remaining buffer bytes.
A Lobsters post points to a video that tries to explain a single-request PHP server compromise in its first three minutes.
The community backport covers unsupported PHP 5.4, 5.5, and 5.6 for CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619.
Christian Fischer's October 23 reply only links a CrowdStrike blog about PHP RCE zero-days.
An allocation failure during request setup can leave incomplete state reachable, rated CVSS v4.0 9.2.
Apache OpenNLP CVE-2026-67211: unbounded map pre-sizing in SymSpellModelSerializer enables out-of-memory denial of service in opennlp-symspell 3.0.0-M4/M5.
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