CVE-2026-7259 (GCVE-0-2026-7259)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-10 04:13 – Updated: 2026-05-11 13:13
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Null pointer dereference in php_mb_check_encoding() via mb_ereg_search_init()
Summary
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Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-05-11 13:12 UTC
CWE
- CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/php/php-src/security/advisorie… | vendor-advisory |
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Date Public
2026-05-07 00:00
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.