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CVE-2017-11142

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 8.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-07-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

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.

Affected products

• PHP: through 5.6.30; 7.0.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 7.0.5 (+14)

References

• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/07/10/6
• http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
• http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99601
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73807
• https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/0f8cf3b8497dc45c010c44ed9e96518e11e19fc3
• https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/a15bffd105ac28fd0dd9b596632dbf035238fda3
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180112-0001/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4081
• https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-12
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/07/10/6
• http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php

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