CVE-2026-57584
Phalcon is a high-performance, full-stack PHP framework. Prior to 5.15.0, every Phalcon MVC application built with a default router registers a built-in route whose compiled PCRE pattern contains the nested quantifier (/.), and the same construct is produced by the /:params placeholder and the CLI router. Phalcon\Mvc\Router::handle() matches this pattern against the attacker-controlled request URI on every request, so a crafted path such as one containing repeated slashes followed by decoded newlines can trigger catastrophic backtracking and cause CPU exhaustion or route-matching failure. This issue is fixed in version 5.15.0.
- CVSS 4.0
- 8.7
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N - EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 44% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)
- CWE
- CWE-1333
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
References
- https://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon/commit/14ba22d389d5ca620bb9d5207205f836ef1224f2
- https://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon/commit/fa798e919cb2c487062bb9899ad6fc2b673b3a67
- https://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon/releases/tag/v5.15.0
- https://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon/security/advisories/GHSA-x7rj-f32v-7jjg
- https://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon/security/advisories/GHSA-x7rj-f32v-7jjg