Resource exhaustion in PHP

CVE-2017-7963

The GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library (GMP) interfaces for PHP through 7.1.4 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via operations on long strings. NOTE: the vendor disputes this, stating "There is no security issue here, because GMP safely aborts in case of an OOM condition. The only attack vector here is denial of service. However, if you allow attacker-controlled, unbounded allocations you have a DoS vector regardless of GMP's OOM behavior.

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CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.020 (80.0th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 80th percentile — 80.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2017-7963: held from 0.020 to 0.020.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.020 · newest: 0.020 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-7963?
CVE-2017-7963 is a high-severity vulnerability in PHP, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-04-19.
How severe is CVE-2017-7963?
High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.