Vulnerabilities found in widely used PHP programming language
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Vulnerabilities were found in the widely used PHP programming language on Wednesday, making the developer race to release emergency p
Japan's Innovation Platform Agency disclosed on Wednesday that two significant vulnerabilities have been identified in the widely-used PHP programming language. This prompted a scramble among developers to issue emergency patches to address the flaws. In response, governments and corporations worldwide temporarily halted their websites, fearing potential exploitation by cybercriminals.
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi endorsed this move, stating that offline shutdowns are an effective measure when immediate action cannot be taken. According to a European research institute, PHP powers 69.3% of websites globally that have known server-side programming languages. The vulnerabilities are not limited to data theft; they can also result in system destruction.
The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare placed its information disclosure system offline as a precaution, while the online platform BASE went into emergency maintenance. Tokyo University of Foreign Studies announced it would carry out an urgent inspection of its web servers. Sakura Internet Inc. suspended certain service functions and urged users to install the patches promptly.
The National Cybersecurity Office in Japan called on users to take immediate action, including installing patches. The European Commission's cybersecurity division advised organizations unable to apply patches to isolate internet-facing applications from public networks. Similarly, the National Cyber Security Center in the Netherlands took its website offline, and the British National Cyber Security Center urged organizations to update their systems immediately.
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