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PCRE2

18 CVEs tracked. None of them is in CISA KEV.

This hub aggregates every CVE we track for PCRE2, a product in the oss libraries space. Use it to gauge the current risk picture and drill into individual advisories.

PCRE2 CVEs per month

Oct 2024 to Sep 2026. Point at a month, or focus the strip and use the arrow keys.
PCRE2 CVEs per month
MonthCVEs
2024-100
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2024-120
2025-010
2025-020
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2025-081
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2025-120
2026-010
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2026-097

Severity

How the 18 CVEs score on CVSS. Severity is not exploitation: KEV is counted above.

  • Critical739%
  • High633%
  • Medium211%
  • Low317%

Latest CVEs

The 15 most recently published vulnerabilities affecting PCRE2.

  1. CVE-2026-89162In PCRE2 before 10.48, pcre2_serialize_encode might disclose two bytes to an adversary, typically in a situation where the access available to the adversary is already unsafe.2.9
  2. CVE-2026-89161In PCRE2 before 10.48, pcre2_jit_match mishandles a previously copied subject being passed in as a context. An incorrect free operation can occur.7.4
  3. CVE-2026-89160PCRE2 before 10.48 has a pcre2_match out-of-bounds read during the PCRE2_MATCH_INVALID_UTF matching of an invalid UTF subject.3.7
  4. CVE-2026-89158PCRE2 before 10.48, on 32-bit platforms, has a pcre2_compile_32 integer overflow and resultant out-of-bounds write.6.5
  5. CVE-2026-89157PCRE2 before 10.48, on 32-bit platforms, has a pcre2_pattern_convert out-of-bounds write when an attacker can provide a large pattern.5.7
  6. CVE-2026-89156PCRE2 before 10.48 has a pcre2_match out-of-bounds read after a JIT fallback when an attacker can provide invalid UTF data.2.9
  7. CVE-2026-86145PCRE2 before 10.48 allows a pcre2_dfa_match out-of-bounds write because reuse of a cached workspace block, in a recursive DFA matching workspace, lacks a size check (even though a newly allocated b...8.2
  8. CVE-2025-58050PCRE2: heap-buffer-overflow read in match_ref due to missing boundary restoration in SCS9.1
  9. CVE-2022-41409Integer overflow vulnerability in pcre2test before 10.41 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impacts via negative input.7.5
  10. CVE-2022-1587An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was discovered in the PCRE2 library in the get_recurse_data_length() function of the pcre2_jit_compile.c file. This issue affects recursions in JIT-compiled regu...9.1
  11. CVE-2022-1586An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was discovered in the PCRE2 library in the compile_xclass_matchingpath() function of the pcre2_jit_compile.c file. This involves a unicode property matching issu...9.1
  12. CVE-2019-20454An out-of-bounds read was discovered in PCRE before 10.34 when the pattern \X is JIT compiled and used to match specially crafted subjects in non-UTF mode. Applications that use PCRE to parse untru...7.5
  13. CVE-2017-8786pcre2test.c in PCRE2 10.23 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression.9.8
  14. CVE-2017-8399PCRE2 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."9.8
  15. CVE-2017-7186libpcre1 in PCRE 8.40 and libpcre2 in PCRE2 10.23 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation violation for read access, and application crash) by triggering an invalid Unicod...7.5

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