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CVE-2015-8980
The plural form formula in ngettext family of calls in php-gettext before 1.0.12 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.
Critical9.8EPSS 6.4%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- debian
Description
The plural form formula in ngettext family of calls in php-gettext before 1.0.12 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.
Timeline
ID reserved
By debian
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.4% · top 6.3% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
Affected products
php-gettext
- affected before 1.0.12
References (7)
- 95754 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2017:0372 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20170118 Re: CVE Request: php-gettext: Arbitrary code execution in select_string, ngettext and npgettext count parameter (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1367462 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://lwn.net/Alerts/708838/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [Full Disclosure] 20160815 php-gettext php code execution in select_string, ngettext, npgettext count parameter <1.0.12 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://launchpad.net/php-gettext/trunk/1.0.12 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-8834 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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