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CVE-2007-5898
The (1) htmlentities and (2) htmlspecialchars functions in PHP before 5.2.5 accept partial multibyte sequences, which has unknown impact…
Medium6.4EPSS 2.8%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
The (1) htmlentities and (2) htmlspecialchars functions in PHP before 5.2.5 accept partial multibyte sequences, which has unknown impact and attack vectors, a different issue than CVE-2006-5465.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.4 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.8% · top 14% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.4.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (32)
- http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.2.5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/173043 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2008:0546 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-3864 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2008:004 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1943 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 28658 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 30828 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- DSA-1444 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2008:0582 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- USN-628-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- RHSA-2008:0545 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 27864 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1018934 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 31124 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 31119 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 30040 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.php.net/releases/5_2_5.php (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 27659 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 31200 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- USN-549-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10080 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- SSRT080056 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- RHSA-2008:0544 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 27648 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 28249 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- MDVSA-2008:125 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2007-0242 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2008:0505 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- USN-549-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- MDVSA-2008:126 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- MDVSA-2008:127 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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