SQL Injection in libphp (CVE-2025-14179)
Summary
SQL injection in libphp (CVE-2025-14179). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover. Mitigation: upgrade to 8.2.31, 8.3.31, 8.4.21, 8.5.6 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
In PHP versions 8.2.* before 8.2.31, 8.3.* before 8.3.31, 8.4.* before 8.4.21, and 8.5.* before 8.5.6, the PDO Firebird driver improperly handles NUL bytes when preparing SQL queries. During token-by-token query construction, a string token containing a NUL byte is copied via strncat(), which stops at the NUL byte, dropping the closing quote and causing subsequent SQL tokens to be interpreted as part of the string. This allows SQL injection when attacker-controlled values are quoted via PDO::quote() and embedded in SQL statements.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-14179 has been found in libphp.
Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover. CVSS score: 9.8/10.
What to do: upgrade libphp to 8.2.31, 8.3.31, 8.4.21, 8.5.6 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "libphp CVE-2025-14179" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2025-14179 (libphp) — CWE-89 / CVSS v3 9.8
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Patched: 8.2.31, 8.3.31, 8.4.21, 8.5.6 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
SQL injection (CWE-89) exists in libphp.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of libphp.
Severity: Critical (CVSS 9.8/10). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
Update to 8.2.31, 8.3.31, 8.4.21, 8.5.6.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'libphp' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'libphp' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
libphpを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade libphp to 8.2.31, 8.3.31, 8.4.21, 8.5.6ステージング環境で 8.2.31, 8.3.31, 8.4.21, 8.5.6 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-14179 php81 Fixed in: 8.1.34-r1
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-14179 php7.4
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-14179 php5
References
- advisory github.com
- web nvd.nist.gov
- web access.redhat.com
- web bugzilla.redhat.com
- web security.access.redhat.com