Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-7259
In PHP versions 8.2.* before 8.2.31, 8.3.* before 8.3.31, 8.4.* before 8.4.21, and 8.5.* before 8.5.6, a mismatch between encoding lists in Oniguruma and mbfl leads to a NULL pointer dereference, resulting in a segmentation fault and denial of service. The vulnerability is exploitable when user-controlled input can influence the encoding passed to mb_regex_encoding().
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 24.4%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 6.5
Products affected by CVE-2026-7259