PHP shares mitigation for new RCE vulnerability with no patch
The PHP security team published mitigation guidance for a new remote code execution flaw tracked as CVE-2026-115560, which has no patch yet. It only affects systems that switch session.serialize_handler to php_binary or php_serialize at runtime while session upload progress is enabled. The temporary fix is to set session.upload_progress.enabled=0.
- CVE-2026-115560 requires an unusual configuration and code combination
- Temporary mitigation is setting session.upload_progress.enabled=0
- A full patch will ship in the regular PHP release cycle
- PHP powers about 70% of websites, with over 5.1 million hosts online
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