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CVE-2018-17082 json

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…

published 8y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2018-8862

cvss
6.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.1%
EPSS 4.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
0
none known, plus a Nuclei check

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • php php 5.6.38, 7.0.32, 7.1.22, 7.2.10
  • php5 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.26
  • php7.0 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 7.0.32-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  • php7.2 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-17082

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

  • php7 SLES for SAP 15 SP1, SLES for SAP 15, SLES 15-LTSS +8 more 7.2.34-150000.4.103.1
  • php7 SLE Module for Web and Scripting 15 7.2.5-4.12.2
  • php5 SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP3, SLE Module for Web and Scripting 12 5.5.14-109.41.1
  • php53 SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 5.3.17-112.41.1
  • php7 SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP3, SLE Module for Web and Scripting 12 7.0.7-50.52.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2022:4067-1SUSE-SU-2018:3016-1SUSE-SU-2018:3017-1SUSE-SU-2018:3018-1SUSE-SU-2018:2887-1

  • php7 openSUSE Tumbleweed 7.4.24-1.1
  • php8 openSUSE Tumbleweed 8.0.11-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11167-1openSUSE-SU-2024:11169-1

  • php5 Alpine 3.8, Alpine 3.5 5.6.38-r0
  • php7 Alpine 3.5 7.0.32-r0
  • php7 Alpine 3.7 7.1.29-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2018-17082

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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-2018-17082 updated cvss 4.7

php: Cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw in Apache2 component via body of 'Transfer-Encoding: chunked' request

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 php, php53 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 php, php-gd, php-cli, php-dba, php-fpm, php-pdo, +20 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 php, php-gd, php-cli, php-dba, php-fpm, php-pdo, +18 more Red Hat Software Collections rh-php70-php, rh-php70-php-gd, rh-php70-php-cli, rh-php70-php-dba, rh-php70-php-dbg, rh-php70-php-fpm, +24 more
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • 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 8 php, libzip, php-gd, php-cli, php-dba, php-dbg, +30 more Red Hat Software Collections rh-php72-php, rh-php72-php-gd, rh-php72-php-cli, rh-php72-php-dba, rh-php72-php-dbg, rh-php72-php-fpm, +22 more
    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

cisa ICSA-26-027-02 updated cvss 6.1

Festo Didactic SE MES PC

  • Festo Didactic SE MES PC shipped_with_Windows_10
    affected: vendor fix

Facts from CISA's republication of the vendor's own advisory (CSAF); the linked advisory is the authoritative source. CISA notification · csaf

Exploit prediction

4.10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • Nuclei template Apache2 - Transfer-Encoding Chunked XSS nuclei detection template
  • bugs.php.net https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76582 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
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References

Sources

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