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PHP < 5.6.31, 7.x < 7.0.17, 7.1.x < 7.1.3 DoS Vulnerability (Jul 2017) - Windows

🗓️ 13 Jul 2017 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AGType 
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PHP Denial of Service vulnerability in Window

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE = "cpe:/a:php:php";

if (description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.811486");
  script_version("2025-09-24T05:39:03+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-09-24 05:39:03 +0000 (Wed, 24 Sep 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2017-07-13 17:38:21 +0530 (Thu, 13 Jul 2017)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.8");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2018-01-14 02:29:00 +0000 (Sun, 14 Jan 2018)");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-11142");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  script_name("PHP < 5.6.31, 7.x < 7.0.17, 7.1.x < 7.1.3 DoS Vulnerability (Jul 2017) - Windows");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Denial of Service");
  script_dependencies("gb_php_consolidation.nasl", "os_detection.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("php/detected", "Host/runs_windows");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"PHP is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw exists due to improper handling of long form
  variables in main/php_variables.c script.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successfully exploiting this issue allow an attacker to cause a
  CPU consumption denial of service attack.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"PHP prior to version 5.6.31, 7.x prior to 7.0.17 and 7.1.x
  prior to 7.1.3.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 5.6.31, 7.0.17, 7.1.3 or later.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-7.php");

  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

if (isnull(port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE)))
  exit(0);

if (!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE))
  exit(0);

version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];

if (version_is_less(version: version, test_version: "5.6.31")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "5.6.31", install_path: location);
  security_message(port: port, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

if (version_in_range_exclusive(version: version, test_version_lo: "7.0.0", test_version_up: "7.0.17")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "7.0.17", install_path: location);
  security_message(port: port, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

if (version_in_range_exclusive(version: version, test_version_lo: "7.1.0", test_version_up: "7.1.3")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "7.1.3", install_path: location);
  security_message(port: port, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);

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24 Sep 2025 00:00Current
8High risk
Vulners AI Score8
CVSS 37.5
CVSS 27.8
EPSS0.08432
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