Skip to content
Fencer Intel
high 7.5

CVE-2017-9118 json

PHP 7.1.5 has an Out of bounds access in php_pcre_replace_impl via a crafted preg_replace call.

published 2018-08-02 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-18056

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.0%
EPSS 3.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

PHP 7.1.5 has an Out of bounds access in php_pcre_replace_impl via a crafted preg_replace call.

Patch / fix

  • php php 7.4.27, 8.0.14, 8.1.1
  • php7.2 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 7.2.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.11
  • php7.4 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 7.4.3-4ubuntu2.10
  • php8.1 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 8.1.2-1ubuntu1
  • php7.0 Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm3

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9118

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • rh-php71-php RHEL 3 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 7.1.30-1.el7
  • rh-php71-php-gd RHEL 3 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 7.1.30-1.el7
  • rh-php71-php-cli RHEL 3 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 7.1.30-1.el7
  • rh-php71-php-dba RHEL 3 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 7.1.30-1.el7
  • rh-php71-php-dbg RHEL 3 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 7.1.30-1.el7
  • rh-php71-php-fpm RHEL 3 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 7.1.30-1.el7
  • rh-php71-php-gmp RHEL 3 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 7.1.30-1.el7
  • rh-php71-php-pdo RHEL 3 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 7.1.30-1.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2019:2519

  • php5 SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP3, SLE Module for Web and Scripting 12 5.5.14-109.38.1
  • php53 SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 5.3.17-112.38.1
  • php7 SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP3, SLE Module for Web and Scripting 12 7.0.7-50.49.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:2682-1SUSE-SU-2018:2681-1SUSE-SU-2018:2640-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-9118 updated cvss 5.3

php: Out of bounds access in php_pcre.c:php_pcre_replace_impl()

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 php53 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 php, php-gd, php-cli, php-dba, php-fpm, php-pdo, +20 more
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 php, php-gd, php-cli, php-dba, php-fpm, php-pdo, +18 more
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 php, libzip, php-gd, php-cli, php-dba, php-dbg, +30 more
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Software Collections rh-php70-php, rh-php72-php, rh-php70-php-gd, rh-php72-php-gd, rh-php70-php-cli, rh-php70-php-dba, +52 more
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) rh-php71-php 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php71-php-gd 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php71-php-cli 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php71-php-dba 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php71-php-dbg 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php71-php-fpm 7.1.30-1.el7, +22 more Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.4) rh-php71-php 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php71-php-gd 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php71-php-cli 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php71-php-dba 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php71-php-dbg 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php71-php-fpm 7.1.30-1.el7, +22 more Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.5) rh-php71-php 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php71-php-gd 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php71-php-cli 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php71-php-dba 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php71-php-dbg 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php71-php-fpm 7.1.30-1.el7, +22 more Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.6) rh-php71-php 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php71-php-gd 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php71-php-cli 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php71-php-dba 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php71-php-dbg 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php71-php-fpm 7.1.30-1.el7, +22 more Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) rh-php71-php 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php71-php-gd 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php71-php-cli 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php71-php-dba 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php71-php-dbg 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php71-php-fpm 7.1.30-1.el7, +22 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:2519
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 php
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.95% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • bugs.php.net https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=74604 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.