What the critical PHP vulnerabilities mean for your organisation

What the critical PHP vulnerabilities mean for your organisation

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A UK law firm's client briefing (Mishcon de Reya, information stated as correct as of 22 October) on what the PHP vulnerabilities mean for an organisation. It says the flaws let an attacker take control of a web server with a crafted request, that technical details leaked before the fix and early attack attempts were reported, and that several governments and organisations took sites offline as a precaution. It points to the UK NCSC's alert, warns that suppliers and cloud services run PHP behind the scenes (the Dutch NCSC had listed more than 600 products from around 430 suppliers), warns that criminals use such headlines as bait for fake-patch scams, and lists steps: find where PHP is used, confirm the patched versions, follow the NCSC's advice to apply PHP's temporary mitigations or consider taking a system offline, check exposed systems for compromise, ask suppliers in writing, and brief staff. It closes with the firm's own assessment and incident-response services.

> Patching closes the door, but it does not remove an intruder who is already inside.

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