CVE-2002-0717: PHP

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

PHP 4.2.0 and 4.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via an HTTP POST request with certain arguments in a multipart/form-data form, which generates an error condition that is not properly handled and causes improper memory to be freed.

Affected products

• PHP PHP: version 4.2.0 only; version 4.2.1 only

Published 2002-07-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.