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VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2017-16642

In PHP before 5.6.32, 7.x before 7.0.25, and 7.1.x before 7.1.11, an error in the date extension's timelib_meridian handling of 'front of' and 'back of' directives could be used by attackers able to supply date strings to leak information from the…

HIGH 7.5EPSS 26.4%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 26.4%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

In PHP before 5.6.32, 7.x before 7.0.25, and 7.1.x before 7.1.11, an error in the date extension's timelib_meridian handling of 'front of' and 'back of' directives could be used by attackers able to supply date strings to leak information from the interpreter, related to ext/date/lib/parse_date.c out-of-bounds reads affecting the php_parse_date function. NOTE: this is a different issue than CVE-2017-11145.

CVSS 3.0
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS
26.37% probability · 98th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-125
Affected
php/php · debian/debian linux · canonical/ubuntu linux · netapp/storage automation store · netapp/clustered data ontap
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.