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CVE-2017-16642
In PHP before 5.6.32, 7.x before 7.0.25, and 7.1.x before 7.1.11, an error in the date extension's timelib_meridian handling of 'front of'…
High7.5EPSS 26.4%
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Description
In PHP before 5.6.32, 7.x before 7.0.25, and 7.1.x before 7.1.11, an error in the date extension's timelib_meridian handling of 'front of' and 'back of' directives could be used by attackers able to supply date strings to leak information from the interpreter, related to ext/date/lib/parse_date.c out-of-bounds reads affecting the php_parse_date function. NOTE: this is a different issue than CVE-2017-11145.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 26.4% · top 2.0% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (13)
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20181123-0001/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 43133 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=75055 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:1296 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 101745 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- DSA-4081 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- DSA-4080 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- USN-3566-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.php (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/derickr/timelib/commit/aa9156006e88565e1f1a5f7cc088b18322d57536 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/5c0455bf2c8cd3c25401407f158e820aa3b239e1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2519 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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