What is CVE-2018-17082?

CVE-2018-17082 is a medium-severity vulnerability in NetApp Storage Automation Store, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2018-09-16.

How severe is CVE-2018-17082?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

Is CVE-2018-17082 known to be exploited?

9 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in NetApp Storage Automation Store

CVE-2018-17082

The Apache2 component in PHP before 5.6.38, 7.0.x before 7.0.32, 7.1.x before 7.1.22, and 7.2.x before 7.2.10 allows XSS via the body of a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" request, because the bucket brigade is mishandled in the php_handler function in sapi/apache2handler/sapi_apache2.c.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2018-09-16 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.041 (90.4th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 90th percentile — 90.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.041 · newest: 0.041 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

php.net/ChangeLog-5.php (Release Notes)
php.net/ChangeLog-7.php (Release Notes)
www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4353 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/php/php-src/commit/23b057742e3cf199612fa8050ae86cae675e214e (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00020.html (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
bugs.php.net/bug.php (Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201812-01 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180924-0001/ (Third Party Advisory)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2519 (vendor-advisory)
www.tenable.com/security/tns-2019-07

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-17082?: CVE-2018-17082 is a medium-severity vulnerability in NetApp Storage Automation Store, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2018-09-16.
How severe is CVE-2018-17082?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2018-17082 known to be exploited?: 9 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.