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critical 9.8

CVE-2016-6175 in the critical feed json

Eval injection vulnerability in php-gettext 1.0.12 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a crafted plural f…

published 2017-02-07 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-7109

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
19.7%
EPSS 19.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Eval injection vulnerability in php-gettext 1.0.12 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a crafted plural forms header.

Patch / fix

  • php-gettext Debian 14, Debian 12 1.0.12-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6175

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-6175 updated cvss 7.3

php-php-gettext: $string variable not sufficiently sanitized

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-40154)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

19.66% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-40154 PHP gettext 1.0.12 - 'gettext.php' Code Execution webapps, 2016-07-25

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

References

Sources

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