CVE-2015-8391

9.8

CRITICALCVSS v3

Published

December 2, 2015

CVSS v2

9 HIGH

Affected

4 projects

Assigned by

MITRE

Severity scale

010

Description

The pcre_compile function in pcre_compile.c in PCRE before 8.38 mishandles certain [: nesting, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror.