Medium
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in PHP before 5.6.33, 7.0.x before 7.0.27, 7.1.x before 7.1.13, and 7.2.x before 7.2.1. There is Reflected XSS on the PHAR 404 error page via the URI of a request for a .phar file.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-5712
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:15 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in PHP before 5.6.33, 7.0.x before 7.0.27, 7.1.x before 7.1.13, and 7.2.x before 7.2.1. There is Reflected XSS on the PHAR 404 error page via the URI of a request for a .phar file.
osv:CVE-2018-5712
Complete source record
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"PRE_AST_MERGE",
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:04.898535903Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html",
"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1296",
"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2519",
"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00025.html",
"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3566-1/",
"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3600-1/",
"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3600-2/",
"https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=74782"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 440634,
"published_at": "2018-01-16T09:29:00.623+00:00"
}