High
Security advisory
In PHP versions 7.2.x below 7.2.26, 7.3.x below 7.3.13 and 7.4.0 on Windows, PHP link() function accepts filenames with embedded \0 byte and treats them as terminating at that byte. This could lead to security vulnerabilities, e.g. in applications checking paths that the code is allowed to access.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-11044
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:59 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In PHP versions 7.2.x below 7.2.26, 7.3.x below 7.3.13 and 7.4.0 on Windows, PHP link() function accepts filenames with embedded \0 byte and treats them as terminating at that byte. This could lead to security vulnerabilities, e.g. in applications checking paths that the code is allowed to access.
osv:CVE-2019-11044
Complete source record
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"references": [
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"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XWRQPYXVG43Q7DXMXH6UVWMKWGUW552F/",
"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200103-0002/",
"https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-14",
"https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=78862"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2019-12-23T03:15:10.913+00:00"
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