CVE detail
CVE-2009-5016 — CVE-2009-5016
Published 2010-11-12 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor php · Product php · Source nvd
UNKNOWN
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.0265
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
84.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog
Description
Integer overflow in the xml_utf8_decode function in ext/xml/xml.c in PHP before 5.2.11 makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection protection mechanisms via a crafted string that uses overlong UTF-8 encoding, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-3870.
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References