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Vulnerability details: VCID-ysy7-psez-cbhq
Vulnerability ID VCID-ysy7-psez-cbhq
Aliases CVE-2015-8980
Summary The plural form formula in ngettext family of calls in php-gettext before 1.0.12 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 8.8
Risk 4.4
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
Reference id Reference type URL
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-02/msg00015.html
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-8980
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1367462
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8980
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Aug/76
https://launchpad.net/php-gettext/trunk/1.0.12
https://lwn.net/Alerts/708838/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/18/4
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95754
851770 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=851770
cpe:2.3:a:php-gettext_project:php-gettext:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:php-gettext_project:php-gettext:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:24:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:24:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2015-8980 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8980
USN-USN-4779-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/USN-4779-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8980
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8980
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.88748
EPSS Score 0.04547
Published At Aug. 16, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T08:38:02.110198+00:00 Ubuntu USN Importer Import https://usn.ubuntu.com/USN-4779-1/ 37.0.0