CVE Catalog

CVE-2017-11142

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

In PHP versions before 5.6.31, 7.x before 7.0.17, and 7.1.x before 7.1.3, remote attackers could cause a denial of service attack by injecting long form variables, leading to excessive CPU consumption.

Risk Assessment

Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to disrupt server operations, potentially leading to service downtime and loss of application availability.

Recommendation

It is recommended to upgrade PHP to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability and to monitor applications for unusual resource consumption.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS