Web services face confirmed attacks through critical PHP weaknesses
Daily Cyber News: Web services face confirmed attacks through critical PHP weaknesses
Internet-facing PHP systems are under active attack through two critical memory-safety weaknesses. Successful exploitation can allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute code on an affected server. Researchers reported working remote code execution, and the flaws were added to the US government’s known-exploited list.
Key context: PHP supports a substantial share of web applications, so every deployment serving web requests may need review.
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