CVE-2015-8383

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-119 Buffer Errors

Publication date:

02/12/2015

Last modified:

12/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.80 CRITICAL
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

9.80

Severity 3.x

CRITICAL

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

7.50

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:pcre:perl_compatible_regular_expression_library::::::::		8.37 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:22:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php::::::::	5.5.0 (including)	5.5.32 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:php:php::::::::	5.6.0 (including)	5.6.18 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:php:php::::::::	7.0.0 (including)	7.0.3 (excluding)

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CVE-2015-8383

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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