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High · 8.7 CVE-2026-57584 EUVD-2026-43098GHSA-x7rj-f32v-7jjg

Phalcon: Catastrophic backtracking (ReDoS) in the default Phalcon Router route lead to remote unauthenticated DoS

Published Jul 10, 2026 · Updated Jul 13, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
phalcon cphalcon < 5.15.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Packagist phalcon/cphalcon < 5.15.0 5.15.0 GHSA-x7rj-f32v-7jjg

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