CVE-2018-5712

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 79.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-01-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

An issue was discovered in PHP before 5.6.33, 7.0.x before 7.0.27, 7.1.x before 7.1.13, and 7.2.x before 7.2.1. There is Reflected XSS on the PHAR 404 error page via the URI of a request for a .phar file.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 17.10
Debian Linux: 7.0
PHP: through 5.6.32; from 7.0.0 through 7.0.26; from 7.1.0 (excl.) through 7.1.12; 7.2.0

References

http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102742
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104020
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040363
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1296
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2519
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=74782
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00025.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3566-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3600-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3600-2/

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