CVE-2017-16642

mediumpriority · attend · 49EPSS 0.264 · 98 %ileexploit · functionalEURUUS
grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent
Exploitable?
Public exploit
1 exploit · functional
Likely / severe?
26.4% (98th) EPSS
CVSS 5 · medium
Is it mine?
16 products
Check your exposure
Who says so?
4 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

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cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5
010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9
v3.07.5highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6
v3.07.1highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:Psecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
v3.17.5highAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU
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weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-125USprimaryCWE-125US
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exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

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affected products (16)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

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also known as (4)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

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sources

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cnnvdenisa_euvdfstec_bdunvdNVDCVE.orgMITRE
published 2017-11-07modified 2026-06-17
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references (42)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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