CVE-2019-9641 — Use of Uninitialized Resource in PHP

CWE-908 — Use of Uninitialized ResourceCWE-665 — Improper Initialization14 documents9 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
OSV7.5
EPSS
52.1%
top 2.08%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
5
PHPPhp5Canonical Ubuntu Linux+2 more
Timeline
PublishedMar 9
Latest updateJan 27

Description

An issue was discovered in the EXIF component in PHP before 7.1.27, 7.2.x before 7.2.16, and 7.3.x before 7.3.3. There is an uninitialized read in exif_process_IFD_in_TIFF.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶NVDphp/php7.2.0 — 7.2.16+2
▶Ubuntuphp5/php5< 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.29
▶NVDopensuse/leap15.0, 15.1, 42.3+2

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0, Ubuntu Linux 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 18.10

Patches

Patch: bugs.php.net ↗Patch: security.netapp.com ↗Patch: bugs.php.net ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-wvm5-62cm-hw4m: An issue was discovered in the EXIF component in PHP before 7↗2022-05-13
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OSV
php5 vulnerabilities↗2019-04-23
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OSV
php7.0, php7.2 vulnerabilities↗2019-03-26
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OSV
CVE-2019-9641: An issue was discovered in the EXIF component in PHP before 7↗2019-03-08
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📋Vendor Advisories

5
CISA ICS
Festo Didactic SE MES PC↗2026-01-27
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Ubuntu
PHP vulnerabilities↗2019-04-25
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Ubuntu
PHP vulnerabilities↗2019-04-23
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Ubuntu
PHP vulnerabilities↗2019-03-26
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Red Hat
php: Uninitialized read in exif_process_IFD_in_TIFF↗2019-01-23
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📄Research Papers

1
arXiv
A Comparative Study of Fuzzers and Static Analysis Tools for Finding Memory Unsafety in C and C++↗2025-05-28
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💬Community

3
HackerOne
Uninitialized read in exif_process_IFD_in_TIFF↗2020-10-10
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Bugzilla
CVE-2019-9641 php: Uninitialized read in exif_process_IFD_in_TIFF [fedora-all]↗2019-03-14
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Bugzilla
CVE-2019-9641 php: Uninitialized read in exif_process_IFD_in_TIFF↗2019-03-14
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