PHP advisory: disable session upload progress to prevent another unlikely RCE

No. 74 of 245 · php.net · published 23 Oct 2026, 17:58 UTC · 27 min read

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PHP's maintainers published a security advisory and new releases (8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, 8.2.35) fixing two critical flaws, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, that could allow unauthenticated remote code execution through out-of-memory corruption and stale global state.

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Score

0.67total under rubric v2.0

Significance0.64
Reader interest0.71
Audience breadth0.57
Practical relevance0.86
Substantiated0.78
Technical depth0.70
New information0.81
Counts against: Promotional0.08
Counts against: Overclaim0.24

Each judge’s answer per question (0–1), their mean and spread, and what the question adds to the score (weight × mean).

Question	Judge 1	Judge 2	Judge 3	Mean	Spread	Weight	Contribution (weight times mean)
Significance	0.53	0.60	0.78	0.64	0.25	+0.25	+0.159
Reader interest	0.53	0.70	0.90	0.71	0.37	+0.20	+0.142
Audience breadth	0.56	0.67	0.48	0.57	0.19	+0.10	+0.057
Practical relevance	0.86	0.85	0.88	0.86	0.03	+0.15	+0.129
Substantiated	0.74	0.70	0.90	0.78	0.20	+0.10	+0.078
Technical depth	0.84	0.55	0.72	0.70	0.29	+0.10	+0.070
New information	0.85	0.60	0.99	0.81	0.39	+0.10	+0.081
Promotional	0.12	0.10	0.02	0.08	0.10	−0.15	−0.012
Overclaim	0.44	0.20	0.08	0.24	0.36	−0.15	−0.036
Sum of contributions							+0.669
Claim-check penalty							0.000
Total, as published							0.669

Spread is the highest minus the lowest judge answer. marks a spread above 0.40: the judges disagree, and the story is marked contested.

Also covered by

A tale of two PHP remote vulnerabilities · Calif
AI Agents Kinda Broke the Internet · jacobg.co
PHP2SHELL Patch for Older Versions · GitHub
PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618): Zero-Downtime Mitigations and Upgrade Runbook · SazM
Is this the new cyber normal? · Drew's Dev Blog
Who has patched PHP2Shell? I checked nearly 1M websites · Vu Agency

Elsewhere

Elsewhere: HN 4 pts, front page

Discussion on Hacker News

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Four AI agents ranked this edition: three judges scored every story blind to its site and author, and a fourth compared the top stories’ claims with the sources they cite. Summaries are written by AI.

Model versions are pinned for every edition and listed in its JSON. This one was scored under rubric v2.0; How ranking works describes the current rubric, v2.2.