7.5 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.014 Low
EPSS
Percentile
86.3%
PCRE before 8.36 mishandles the /((?®a|(?1)))+/ pattern and related
patterns with certain recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a
denial of service (segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other
impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript
RegExp object encountered by Konqueror.
Author | Note |
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sbeattie | since 2.0.0, mongodb packages use system pcre |
tyhicks | Issue affects PCRE3 only Marking ‘low’ since it requires PCRE to operate on untrusted regular expressions which is not very likely |
mdeslaur | 0001-Fix-compile-time-loop-for-recursive-reference-within.patch in jessie |