What is CVE-2025-14181?
The SOAP HTTP client guards its response buffer growth with a check that relies on signed integer overflow, which is undefined behaviour and is not guaranteed to trigger. When the check is optimised away, a malicious SOAP server can make the client allocate a buffer far smaller than the data it then writes into it, producing a heap buffer overflow.
The record classifies CVE-2025-14181 under weakness class CWE-190. Its CVSS v3 base vector states that the flaw is reachable remotely over the network, needs no prior authentication, needs no user interaction, and has high impact on availability. 1 affected-product entry is recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 49 days ago.
Severity and exploitation probability
- CVSS v3.1 base score
- 6.5 — MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H - CISA KEV
- Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
- Threadlinqs priority
- 3.3/10 — a Threadlinqs composite of the CVSS base score, the EPSS percentile and public exploit availability
- Published
- 2026-09-25
Is CVE-2025-14181 being exploited?
No public exploitation evidence for CVE-2025-14181 is recorded in the sources Threadlinqs tracks — CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, public proof-of-concept repositories and ProjectDiscovery Nuclei — as of 2026-09-25. That is an absence of evidence in those feeds, not a guarantee that the vulnerability is unexploited.
Affected products and versions
- PHP Group: PHP
How to fix CVE-2025-14181
Vendor advisory: https://github.com/php/php-src/security/advisories/GHSA-cj93-vc83-wgqv. Apply the vendor fix referenced above to every affected product listed in this record, then confirm the running version against the vendor advisory.
Threat activity tracking CVE-2025-14181
1 tracked threat in the Threadlinqs corpus references CVE-2025-14181, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.
Sources
Enriched from CVE.org, NVD. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.