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CVE-2017-16642

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 26.37% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-11-07 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2017-16642
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
26.37%

Original NVD 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.