SUMMARY

cPanel, Inc. has updated RPMs for EasyApache 4 with PHP versions 5.6.38, 7.0.32, 7.1.22, and 7.2.10 and released EasyApache 3.36.8 with PHP version 5.6.38 on September 19, 2018. This release addresses vulnerabilities related to CVE-2018-17082. We strongly encourage all PHP 5.6 users to upgrade to versions 5.6.38, all PHP 7.0 users to upgrade to version 7.0.32, all PHP 7.1 users to upgrade to version 7.1.22, and all PHP 7.2 users to upgrade to version 7.2.10.

AFFECTED VERSIONS

All versions of PHP 5.6 through 5.6.37

All versions of PHP 7.0 through 7.0.31

All versions of PHP 7.1 through 7.1.21

All versions of PHP 7.2 through 7.2.9

SECURITY RATING

The National Vulnerability Database (NIST) has given the following severity ratings to these CVEs:

CVE-2018-17082 – MEDIUM

PHP 5.6.38

Fixed bug in Apache2 XSS related to CVE-2018-17082

PHP 7.0.32

Fixed bug in Apache2 XSS related to CVE-2018-17082

PHP 7.1.22

Fixed bug in Apache2 XSS related to CVE-2018-17082

PHP 7.2.10

Fixed bug in Apache2 XSS related to CVE-2018-17082

SOLUTION

cPanel, Inc. has released updated RPMs for EasyApache 4 on September 19, 2018, with updated versions of PHP versions 5.6.38, 7.0.32, 7.1.22, and 7.2.10. Unless you have enabled automatic RPM updates in your cron, update your system with either yum update or WHM’s Run System Update interface.

cPanel, Inc. has released EasyApache 3.36.8 with an updated version of PHP 5.6.38. Unless you have disabled EasyApache updates, the EasyApache application updates to the latest version when launched. Run EasyApache to rebuild your profile with the latest version of PHP.

REFERENCES

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17082

http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php

http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-7.php

For the PGP-signed message, please see EA4 EA3 2018-9-19 CVE signed.