CVE-2017-11142
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.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (8.25%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
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.
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 8.25% probability · 95th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-400
- Affected
- php/php
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 8.3% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/07/10/6Mailing List
- http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.phpRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.phpRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99601
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73807Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/0f8cf3b8497dc45c010c44ed9e96518e11e19fc3Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/a15bffd105ac28fd0dd9b596632dbf035238fda3Patch, Third Party Advisory
- 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/2017/07/10/6Mailing List
- http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.phpRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.phpRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99601
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73807Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/0f8cf3b8497dc45c010c44ed9e96518e11e19fc3Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/a15bffd105ac28fd0dd9b596632dbf035238fda3Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180112-0001/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4081
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-12
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.