Null byte termination in hostnames
In PHP versions:8.1.* before 8.1.33, 8.2.* before 8.2.29, 8.3.* before 8.3.23, 8.4.* before 8.4.10 some functions like fsockopen() lack validation that the hostname supplied does not contain null characters. This may lead to other functions like parse_url() treat the hostname in different way, thus opening way to security problems if the user code implements access checks before access using such functions.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2025-1220
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 3 Nov 2026, 14:47 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In PHP versions:8.1.* before 8.1.33, 8.2.* before 8.2.29, 8.3.* before 8.3.23, 8.4.* before 8.4.10 some functions like fsockopen() lack validation that the hostname supplied does not contain null characters. This may lead to other functions like parse_url() treat the hostname in different way, thus opening way to security problems if the user code implements access checks before access using such functions.
osv:CVE-2025-1220
Complete source record
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"title": "Null byte termination in hostnames",
"summary": "In PHP versions:8.1.* before 8.1.33, 8.2.* before 8.2.29, 8.3.* before 8.3.23, 8.4.* before 8.4.10 some functions like fsockopen() lack validation that the hostname supplied does not contain null characters. This may lead to other functions like parse_url() treat the hostname in different way, thus opening way to security problems if the user code implements access checks before access using such functions.",
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"GHSA-3cr5-j632-f35r"
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"modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:29.752198760Z",
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"references": [
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