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27 parties whose words this site quotes: maintainers, researchers, agencies, vendors, operators and reporters. Each has a page with the claims it makes, the sources those claims come from, and its own small graph. The count is of claims this site attributes to the party; a party with many claims and few primary sources is one whose word is being taken.

PartyRole in the storyClaimsSources
The PHP Group / php.netmaintainer, CVE numbering authority5php.net php.net php-src
The PHP Foundationfunds core developers; published the account of discovery and the leak0PHP Foundation
Jakub Zelenka (bukka), PHP security teampublished both GitHub advisories and the oss-security announcements4PHP oss-security
Alexandre Daubois, PHP security team (personal blog)inside account of the rumours and the leak4Daubois
Calif (Ryan Austin, @lcfr_hax; Michal Zalewski)first reporter; published the write-up with demo videos5Calif Ryan Austin, Calif on X
OpenAI (Patch the Planet, Codex Security, Amy Burnett)reported the same root cause on 11 August; ran the coordination coalition3OpenAI on X OpenAI OpenAI forum
Wiz Researchindependent discovery 19 August; the '70% of the Internet' headline0Wiz Wiz on X
Quarkslab, OSTIF2024 audit that first surfaced the OOM issue1PHP Foundation Calif
CloudflareWAF rules live 9 hours early; saw attack traffic3Cloudflare
Amazon (CJ Moses)honeypot evidence of a pre-disclosure attempt1THN
Chainguardpublished patched images before the embargo lifted, per the Foundation1PHP Foundation Techzine
watchTowrconfirmed the CVE numbers in public on 20 October, per Daubois2Daubois CERT-EU
National agencies (NSA, CISA, NCSC UK, CERT-EU, CERT-FR, CCCS, ACSC, NCSC NZ, NCSC-NL, ACN, BACS, CERT.LV, JPCERT)advisories; see the agency table11NSA CISA NCSC UK
BBC News (live page; Kieran Kelly, Imogen James)the coverage most readers saw on the morning of 22 October0BBC News
Alan Woodward, Surrey Centre for Cyber Securitycommentator quoted by the BBC: 30 million websites; probing seen by Amazon and Cloudflare2BBC News
The Hacker News (Ravie Lakshmanan)carried Amazon's honeypot account and VulnCheck's host count1THN
Dan Lorenc, Chainguardshipped patched images early; says exploits were in the wild and denies leaking2The Register Feross Aboukhadijeh on X on X
Matthew Prince, Cloudflare CEOthe attempt counts1Matthew Prince, Cloudflare CEO on…
Imperva Threat Researchhad the details under embargo; saw nothing before disclosure1Imperva Threat Research
Fastlythe most candid vendor on exploitability and on what a WAF cannot do2Fastly
Akamairule 3000991; the 2024 precedent1Akamai Security Research Akamai Security Research
Huntressno exploitation seen on partner systems2Huntress
Weird Gloop (cookmeplox)the one operator with a measured outage1Weird Gloop
The Dutch government and NCSC-NLtook its own site offline3Rijksoverheid / NCSC-NL NCSC-NL
Valtori and NCSC-FIFinland's precautionary shutdown1Yle Helsinki Times
Community detection authors (darkfibr, rjmendez, Lexsah, Blevene)the rules, and the correction of the leaked PoC's mechanism1darkfibr, GitHub rjmendez, GitHub Lexsah, GitHub Blevene
Arnaud Le Blanc and the PHP fix authorswrote the fix0php/php-src, read from a clone