CVE-2015-8383
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 2.3%
Description
PCRE before 8.38 mishandles certain repeated conditional groups, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror.
How to fix CVE-2015-8383
To remediate CVE-2015-8383, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/pcre3—upgrade to 2:8.38-1 or later
Is CVE-2015-8383 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 2.3%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 2:8.38-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |