VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-12932

critical
Published 2017-08-18 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

Description

ext/standard/var_unserializer.re in PHP 7.0.x through 7.0.22 and 7.1.x through 7.1.8 is prone to a heap use after free while unserializing untrusted data, related to improper use of the hash API for key deletion in a situation with an invalid array size. Exploitation of this issue can have an unspecified impact on the integrity of PHP.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
php phpphp7.0.0
php phpphp7.0.1
php phpphp7.0.2
php phpphp7.0.3
php phpphp7.0.4
php phpphp7.0.5
php phpphp7.0.6
php phpphp7.0.7
php phpphp7.0.8
php phpphp7.0.9
php phpphp7.0.10
php phpphp7.0.11
php phpphp7.0.12
php phpphp7.0.13
php phpphp7.0.14
php phpphp7.0.15
php phpphp7.0.16
php phpphp7.0.17
php phpphp7.0.18
php phpphp7.0.19
php phpphp7.0.20
php phpphp7.0.21
php phpphp7.0.22
php phpphp7.1.0
php phpphp7.1.1
php phpphp7.1.2
php phpphp7.1.3
php phpphp7.1.4
php phpphp7.1.5
php phpphp7.1.6
php phpphp7.1.7
php phpphp7.1.8

References

CWEs

CWE-416

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.