CVE-2026-7260

Circular symbolic links in phar archives could lead to unbounded recursion, exhausting the C stack and crashing the PHP process, in PHP versions from 8.2.* before 8.2.33, from 8.3.* before 8.3.33, from 8.4.* before 8.4.24, and from 8.5.* before 8.5.9.

Credits

Calvin Young - eWalker Consulting (HK) Limited
Enoch Chow - Isomorph Cyber
Jakub Zelenka - The PHP Foundation

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