CVE-2012-0789 EXPLOIT
5.0
MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 8.3% (pctl 95)
Patch early
A public exploit exists.
Description
Memory leak in the timezone functionality in PHP before 5.3.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering many strtotime function calls, which are not properly handled by the php_date_parse_tzfile cache.
Scoring
| CVSS | 5.0 (MEDIUM, v2.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| EPSS | 8.26% — more likely to be exploited than 95% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-399 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | yes |
| Published | 2012-02-14 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-16 |
Affected (1)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| php | php |
Public exploits
| Source | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| exploit-db | PHP 5.3.8 - Remote Denial of Service | 2011-12-18 |
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00013.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00016.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48668
- http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.3.9
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53502
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783609
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00013.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00016.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48668
- http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.3.9
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53502
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783609
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