Vulnerability Details CVE-2015-8389
PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the /(?:|a|){100}x/ pattern and related patterns, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.031
EPSS Ranking 86.1%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 9.8
CVSS v2 Score 7.5
Products affected by CVE-2015-8389
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cpe:2.3:a:pcre:perl_compatible_regular_expression_library:8.36
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cpe:2.3:a:pcre:perl_compatible_regular_expression_library:8.37
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cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:22