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Pcre

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

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

Pcre CVEs per month

Oct 2024 to Sep 2026. Point at a month, or focus the strip and use the arrow keys.
Pcre CVEs per month
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Severity

How the 34 CVEs score on CVSS. Severity is not exploitation: KEV is counted above.

  • Critical515%
  • High1441%
  • Medium1544%

Latest CVEs

The 15 most recently published vulnerabilities affecting Pcre.

  1. CVE-2019-20838libpcre in PCRE before 8.43 allows a subject buffer over-read in JIT when UTF is disabled, and \X or \R has more than one fixed quantifier, a related issue to CVE-2019-20454.7.5
  2. CVE-2020-14155libpcre in PCRE before 8.44 allows an integer overflow via a large number after a (?C substring.5.3
  3. CVE-2015-2326The pcre_compile2 function in PCRE before 8.37 allows context-dependent attackers to compile incorrect code and cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via regular expression with a group co...5.5
  4. CVE-2015-2325The compile_branch function in PCRE before 8.37 allows context-dependent attackers to compile incorrect code, cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap read and crash), or possibly have other u...7.8
  5. CVE-2017-16231In PCRE 8.41, after compiling, a pcretest load test PoC produces a crash overflow in the function match() in pcre_exec.c because of a self-recursive call. NOTE: third parties dispute the relevance ...5.5
  6. CVE-2017-11164In PCRE 8.41, the OP_KETRMAX feature in the match function in pcre_exec.c allows stack exhaustion (uncontrolled recursion) when processing a crafted regular expression.7.5
  7. CVE-2017-7246Stack-based buffer overflow in the pcre32_copy_substring function in pcre_get.c in libpcre1 in PCRE 8.40 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (WRITE of size 268) or possibly have un...7.8
  8. CVE-2017-7244The _pcre32_xclass function in pcre_xclass.c in libpcre1 in PCRE 8.40 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory read) via a crafted file.5.5
  9. CVE-2017-7245Stack-based buffer overflow in the pcre32_copy_substring function in pcre_get.c in libpcre1 in PCRE 8.40 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (WRITE of size 4) or possibly have unsp...7.8
  10. 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
  11. CVE-2017-6004The compile_bracket_matchingpath function in pcre_jit_compile.c in PCRE through 8.x before revision 1680 (e.g., the PHP 7.1.1 bundled version) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (...7.5
  12. CVE-2015-5073Heap-based buffer overflow in the find_fixedlength function in pcre_compile.c in PCRE before 8.38 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or obtain sensitive information from h...9.1
  13. CVE-2015-3217PCRE 7.8 and 8.32 through 8.37, and PCRE2 10.10 mishandle group empty matches, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) via a crafted regular ex...7.5
  14. CVE-2015-3210Heap-based buffer overflow in PCRE 8.34 through 8.37 and PCRE2 10.10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by /^(?P=B)((?P=B)(?J:(?P<B>...9.8
  15. CVE-2014-9769pcre_jit_compile.c in PCRE 8.35 does not properly use table jumps to optimize nested alternatives, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack memory corruption) or possibly h...7.3

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