In Heroes of Might & Magic 3, “several” means 5–9. 10–19 is “pack”, 20–49 is “lots”, 50–99 is “horde”, 100–249 is “throng”, 250–499 is “swarm”, 500–999 is “zounds…” and 1000+ is “legion”.

I suggest this post be renamed “A legion of vulnerabilities has been discovered…”

Hah! I remember playing that game as a young non-English-speaker and having no idea what these qualifiers meant. They never give the scale, it's just assumed you know that several < pack < lots < horde < throng etc. Which.. even as bilingual as I am today I'd struggle to put on a scale.

I remember playing DOS games as a kid and having read that "several" of something was needed. So I built 7. Later I learned how wasteful I was being.

Maybe we should use legion as a collective noun for vulnerabilities. Like murder of crows or school of fish. Would signal the urgency no matter the actual number or impact...

That's slightly less than the number of CVEs issued in 2003 in total (1,527).

For context, there are 48,152 CVEs from 2025 and 73,356 in 2026 so far.

In total meaning the total assigned CVE numbers?

Yeah, the "Several" is a massive understatement.