GHSA-vpj5-f38f-q927

GHSA-vpj5-f38f-q927 PUBLISHED CVSS 8.699999809265137 HIGH

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 14, 2022

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles certain references, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror, a related issue to CVE-2015-8384 and CVE-2015-8392.

Risk scores

CVSS 4.0

8.699999809265137

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Timeline

May 14, 2022 CVE Published
Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory (3 in total, the first dated here)
Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch

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