Severity
9.8CRITICAL
EPSS
2.7%
top 14.03%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMay 1
Latest updateMay 14

Description

PCRE2 before 10.30 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a stack-based buffer overflow in pcre2_match.c, related to a "pattern with very many captures."

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

NVDpcre/pcre2< 10.30
Ubuntupcre2< 10.21-1+1

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-wrv9-5822-445x: PCRE2 before 102022-05-14
OSV
CVE-2017-8399: PCRE2 before 102017-05-01
CVEList
CVE-2017-8399: PCRE2 before 102017-05-01

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
pcre2: Stack-based buffer overflow in pcre2_match.c2017-03-10
Debian
CVE-2017-8399: pcre2 - PCRE2 before 10.30 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a stack-based buffer ove...2017

💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-8399 pcre2: Stack-based buffer overflow in pcre2_match.c [fedora-all]2017-05-10
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-8399 pcre2: Stack-based buffer overflow in pcre2_match.c [epel-all]2017-05-10
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-8399 pcre2: Stack-based buffer overflow in pcre2_match.c2017-05-10