Perl Compatible Regular Expression Library vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.

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The short answer

Perl Compatible Regular Expression Library is made by Pcre. We track 16 published vulnerabilities in it, across 3 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Perl Compatible Regular Expression Library, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.

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Known exploited

Which Perl Compatible Regular Expression Library vulnerabilities are being exploited?

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None of Perl Compatible Regular Expression Library's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Perl Compatible Regular Expression Library flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

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  1. 6.9%

    PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the interaction of lookbehind assertions and mutually recursive subpatterns, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other...

    CVSS9.8Published2 Dec 2015
  2. 6.6%

    PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the /(?=di(?<=(?1))|(?=(.))))/ pattern and related patterns with an unmatched closing parenthesis, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) or possibly...

    CVSS7.5Published2 Dec 2015
  3. 6.1%

    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...

    CVSS9.8Published2 Dec 2015
  4. 5.6%

    PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the /(?|(\k'Pm')|(?'Pm'))/ pattern and related patterns with certain forward references, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) or possibly have...

    CVSS7.5Published2 Dec 2015
  5. 5.3%

    The compile_regex function in pcre_compile.c in PCRE before 8.38 and pcre2_compile.c in PCRE2 before 10.2x mishandles the /(?J:(?|(:(?|(?'R')(\k'R')|((?'R')))H'Rk'Rf)|s(?'R'))))/ and...

    CVSS7.5Published2 Dec 2015
  6. 4.8%

    PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the (?(<digits>) and (?(R<digits>) conditions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular...

    CVSS9.8Published2 Dec 2015
  7. 4.7%

    PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the [: and \\ substrings in character classes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a...

    CVSS9.8Published2 Dec 2015
  8. 4.4%

    The pcre_exec function in pcre_exec.c in PCRE before 8.38 mishandles a // pattern with a \01 string, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have...

    CVSS7.5Published2 Dec 2015
  9. 4.4%

    pcregrep in PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the -q option for binary files, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted file, as demonstrated by a CGI script that sends stdout data to...

    CVSS7.5Published2 Dec 2015
  10. 4.0%

    PCRE before 8.36 mishandles the /(((a\2)|(a*)\g<-1>))*/ pattern and related patterns with certain internal recursive back references, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) or...

    CVSS7.5Published2 Dec 2015
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We track 16 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Perl Compatible Regular Expression Library, across 3 versions.

None of Perl Compatible Regular Expression Library's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.

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