High
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-11142
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:09 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2017-11142
Complete source record
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