CVE-2017-11147

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-07-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

In PHP before 5.6.30 and 7.x before 7.0.15, the PHAR archive handler could be used by attackers supplying malicious archive files to crash the PHP interpreter or potentially disclose information due to a buffer over-read in the phar_parse_pharfile function in ext/phar/phar.c.

Affected products

Clustered Data ONTAP: all versions
PHP: before 5.6.30; from 7.0.0 before 7.0.15; from 7.1.0 before 7.1.1 — fixed in 5.6.30, 7.0.15, 7.1.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: PHP 5.6.30, 7.0.15, 7.1.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e5246580a85f031e1a3b8064edbaa55c1643a451
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/99607
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1296
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73773
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180112-0001/
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-12
http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e5246580a85f031e1a3b8064edbaa55c1643a451
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/07/10/6
http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php

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