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HistoryDec 02, 2015 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2015-8391

2015-12-0200:00:00
mitre
www.cve.org
5

AI Score

9.7

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.028

Percentile

90.7%

The pcre_compile function in pcre_compile.c in PCRE before 8.38 mishandles certain [: nesting, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror.