RHEL 8 : php:7.4 (RHSA-2026:87080)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 370139

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for php:7.4.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:87080 advisory.

PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language commonly used with the Apache HTTP Server.

Security Fix(es):

* php: php: Out-of-bounds read via empty HTTP redirect Location header (CVE-2026-93682)

* php: PHP: Archive entry injection via integer overflow in TAR parser (CVE-2026-6103)

* php: PHP: Denial of Service via heap buffer overflow in SOAP client (CVE-2025-14181)

* php: php: Denial of Service via unbounded recursion in SOAP parser (CVE-2026-91765)

* php: php: Credential disclosure via cross-origin HTTP redirects (CVE-2026-91766)

* php: php: Information disclosure via crafted TLS server certificate (CVE-2026-91767)

* php: php: Denial of Service via out-of-bounds read in mysqlnd wire protocol parser (CVE-2025-1218)

* php: php: Access control bypass via partial IPv6 address comparison (CVE-2026-91768)

* php: php: Information disclosure via out-of-bounds read in stream filters (CVE-2026-92842)

* php: php: Server impersonation via Common Name fallback in TLS verification (CVE-2026-91769)

* php: OOM bailout during request parsing leads to memory corruption and RCE (CVE-2026-109618)

* php: fatal error handling retains stale request state leading to use-after-free (CVE-2026-109619)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL php:7.4 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:87080.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:87080

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2541615

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2541638

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2541641

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2541646

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2541649

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2541652

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2541655

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2541660

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2541662

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2542493

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2553995

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2554177

http://www.nessus.org/u?68a0aa57

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 370139

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-87080.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/21/2026

Updated: 10/21/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.2

Percentile: 99.77

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-109619

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.2

Threat Score: 7.2

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.10, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:apcu-panel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libzip-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libzip-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libzip, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-bcmath, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-cli, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-dba, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-dbg, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-embedded, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-enchant, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-ffi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-fpm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-gd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-gmp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-intl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-json, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-ldap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-mbstring, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-mysqlnd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-odbc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-opcache, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-pdo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-pear, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-pecl-apcu-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-pecl-apcu, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-pecl-rrd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-pecl-xdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-pecl-zip, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-process, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-snmp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-soap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-xml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/21/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/22/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-1218, CVE-2025-14181, CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619, CVE-2026-6103, CVE-2026-91765, CVE-2026-91766, CVE-2026-91767, CVE-2026-91768, CVE-2026-91769, CVE-2026-92842, CVE-2026-93682

CWE: 122, 125, 190, 200, 295, 416, 674, 940

RHSA: 2026:87080