Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 10, 2026· Updated Jul 13, 2026
Phalcon: Catastrophic backtracking (ReDoS) in the default Phalcon Router route lead to remote unauthenticated DoS
CVE-2026-57584
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.
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References
4- github.com/phalcon/cphalcon/commit/14ba22d389d5ca620bb9d5207205f836ef1224f2mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/phalcon/cphalcon/commit/fa798e919cb2c487062bb9899ad6fc2b673b3a67mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/phalcon/cphalcon/releases/tag/v5.15.0mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/phalcon/cphalcon/security/advisories/GHSA-x7rj-f32v-7jjgmitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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