FrankenPHP before 1.13.4 contains a denial of service vulnerability in worker mode where frankenphphandlerequest() returns false without…
CVE-2026-128018
FrankenPHP before 1.13.4 contains a denial of service vulnerability in worker mode where frankenphphandlerequest() returns false without finishing the dequeued request after a fatal error during request startup. Attackers who trigger startup fatal errors against worker scripts that keep calling frankenphphandlerequest() can leave client requests hanging indefinitely while the worker continues running.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 6.3 (v4.0)
- Severity
- Medium
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 13 November 2026
- Last updated
- 13 November 2026
- Affected
- PHP · frankenphp
- Assigner
- VulnCheck
CVSS vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
At the source
References
- https://github.com/php/frankenphp/security/advisories/GHSA-x6j6-qv7w-fq3c
- https://github.com/php/frankenphp/commit/185bfe578af854d29d7bdff3dd83b3b9dea3572b
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/frankenphp-before-1.13.4-pending-worker-request-denial-of-service
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-128018
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