What is 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.
The record classifies CVE-2026-7260 under weakness class CWE-121. 1 affected-product entry is recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 67 days ago.
Severity and exploitation probability
- CVSS v4.0 base score
- 5.4 — Medium (derived from score)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H/E:U - EPSS (FIRST)
- 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 6.4% of all scored CVEs
- CISA KEV
- Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
- Threadlinqs priority
- 3/10 — a Threadlinqs composite of the CVSS base score, the EPSS percentile and public exploit availability
- Published
- 2026-07-30
Is CVE-2026-7260 being exploited?
No public exploitation evidence for CVE-2026-7260 is recorded in the sources Threadlinqs tracks — CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, public proof-of-concept repositories and ProjectDiscovery Nuclei — as of 2026-07-30. 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-2026-7260
No vendor patch reference has been recorded for CVE-2026-7260 in the tracked sources. Follow the references below for a fix, and treat the products listed above as exposed until the vendor states otherwise.
Threat activity tracking CVE-2026-7260
1 tracked threat in the Threadlinqs corpus references CVE-2026-7260, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.
Sources
Enriched from CVE.org, NVD, FIRST EPSS. Last verified by Threadlinqs on . This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.