CVE-2024-2757 (GCVE-0-2024-2757)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-04-29 03:49
Modified
2025-11-04 17:18
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In PHP 8.3.* before 8.3.5, function mb_encode_mimeheader() runs endlessly for some inputs that contain long strings of non-space characters followed by a space. This could lead to a potential DoS attack if a hostile user sends data to an application that uses this function.
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Impacted products
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PHP Group PHP Version: 8.3.*   ≤
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