# CERT-FR Warns of Critical PHP Flaws

Published: 2026-10-21 · Severity: routine · Sectors: Technology
Canonical: https://vorant.io/reports/add2de8e-e2f2-5bed-8ff8-8b6daa56a095/cert-fr-warns-of-critical-php-flaws

> CERT-FR alerts on two critical PHP vulnerabilities affecting all PHP 5.x-8.x versions, with patches expected 21 October 2026.

CERT-FR issued an alert bulletin regarding two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, affecting all versions from 5.x through 8.x. PHP's official communication on 20 October 2026 announced the issues, with security patches expected to be released on 21 October 2026 at 16:00 Paris time (14:00 UTC). The vendor has not specified a risk classification for these flaws, and technical details of the vulnerabilities themselves are not disclosed in this bulletin.

For unsupported PHP branches (5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.0.x, and 8.1.x), which no longer receive vendor patches, CERT-FR recommends isolating affected systems and migrating to a maintained, patched version once available. Two unqualified provisional workarounds are suggested: disabling the PHP upload-progress feature via php.ini (session.upload_progress.enabled = Off, with an equivalent php_admin_flag setting for PHP-FPM) — which mitigates only one of the two vulnerabilities — and blocking or monitoring HTTP requests with a Content-Type header set to multipart, ideally enforced via a Web Application Firewall.

No in-the-wild exploitation is mentioned in this bulletin. CERT-EU has also published a corresponding advisory. Given the breadth of PHP's deployment and the end-of-life status of multiple affected branches, defenders running legacy PHP installations should prioritize isolation and migration planning while awaiting the vendor patch.

## Mentioned in this report

- Vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619

Source reporting: https://www.cert.ssi.gouv.fr/alerte/CERTFR-2026-ALE-014

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