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CVE-2011-0420

36
FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-0420 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in PHP 5.3.5, specifically within the grapheme_extract function of the Internationalization (Intl) extension. An attacker can trigger a NULL pointer dereference by providing an invalid size argument, leading to a system crash. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, resulting in a partial availability impact. While not actively exploited in the wild, public exploit code for this specific issue is available on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.3.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
14.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-35354 · Feb 17, 2011
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1441 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 23,703 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2011-0420

php: missing $size checks in grapheme_extract()

Feb 17, 2011

References

lists.apple.com / archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00003.html
securityreason.com / achievement_securityalert/94
Exploit
securityreason.com / securityalert/8087
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/65437
support.apple.com / kb/HT5002
svn.php.net / viewvc/php/php-src/trunk/ext/intl/grapheme/grapheme_string.c
Patch
debian.org / security/2011/dsa-2266
exploit-db.com / exploits/16182
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/210829
US Government Resource
securityfocus.com / archive/1/516504/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/516518/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/46429
Exploit