PHP2Shell: Haven't patched yet? Take these steps now to mitigate - ZDNET

PHP2Shell: Haven't patched yet? Take these steps now to mitigate - ZDNET

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ZDNET (English), 23 October, by Charlie Osborne: 'PHP2Shell: Haven't patched yet? Take these steps now to mitigate'. It says the PHP Project issued more instructions to prevent 'an unlikely Remote Code Execution (RCE) vector', now recorded as CVE-2026-115560, which needs an unusual configuration and application-code setup, with the mitigation of session.upload_progress.enabled=0 until the next scheduled fixes. It quotes Wiz that the flaws include memory disclosure and unauthenticated RCE in PHP itself, that building the attack chain 'required an exceptionally complex chain of steps' that frontier AI models substantially eased, relays Amazon Threat Intelligence that exploitation attempts began four days before disclosure and that a threat actor tied to the attack chains is trying to deploy a Mirai-style botnet, Cloudflare's CEO that millions of attempts are recorded, and the NSA's advice to inventory PHP-reliant systems and prioritise patches. A Perforce Zend/OpenLogic manager says most distributions had patches within hours.

> According to Amazon Threat Intelligence, attempts to exploit P2P2Shell were already happening four days before the vulnerabilities were made public.

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