Medium (6.5). EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In PHP version 8.1.* before 8.1.28, 8.2.* before 8.2.18, 8.3.* before 8.3.5, if a password stored with password_hash() starts with a null byte (\x00), testing a blank string as the password via password_verify() will incorrectly return true.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
6.5 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS
1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 74% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)