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CVE-2017-11142

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Description

In PHP before 5.6.31, 7.x before 7.0.17, and 7.1.x before 7.1.3, remote attackers could cause a CPU consumption denial of service attack by injecting long form variables, related to main/php_variables.c.

References

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https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/a15bffd105ac28fd0dd9b596632dbf035238fda3

https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/0f8cf3b8497dc45c010c44ed9e96518e11e19fc3

https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-12

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4081

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180112-0001/

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73807

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99601

http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.php

http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/07/10/6

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-07-10

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.50029

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