CVE-2017-11142

high
Published 2017-07-10 ยท Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
php phpphp{"endIncluding":"5.6.30"}
php phpphp7.0.0
php phpphp7.0.1
php phpphp7.0.2
php phpphp7.0.3
php phpphp7.0.4
php phpphp7.0.5
php phpphp7.0.6
php phpphp7.0.7
php phpphp7.0.8
php phpphp7.0.9
php phpphp7.0.10
php phpphp7.0.11
php phpphp7.0.12
php phpphp7.0.13
php phpphp7.0.14
php phpphp7.0.15
php phpphp7.0.16
php phpphp7.1.0
php phpphp7.1.1
php phpphp7.1.2

References

CWEs

CWE-400

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.