CVE-2017-11142 (GCVE-0-2017-11142)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-07-10 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 17:57
VLAI
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2266 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2017-07-10 00:00
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      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2017/cve-2017-11142.json",
      "version": "3"
    }
  }
}



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