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CVE-2017-11142

HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5 · Uncontrolled resource consumption
7.5CVSS HIGH

Summary

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.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)15%

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products we track (1)

PHP

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/0f8cf3b8497dc45c010c44ed9e96518e11e19fc3 ↗

Last checked: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:18:30 UTC