TI-2017-05954 Aliases CVE-2017-8399 GHSA-wrv9-5822-445x

PCRE2 before 10.30 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a stack-based buffer overflow in…

MEDIUM 48CWE-119Published 2017-05-01 · Updated 2024-08-05

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Code execution
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: High · High · High
Fix status: No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-119 and the CVSS impact.

Summary

PCRE2 before 10.30 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a stack-based buffer overflow in pcre2_match.c, related to a "pattern with very many captures."

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.03118 87th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
—	—	all versions	—	No fix listed	CNA

— Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:pcre:pcre2::::::::	before 10.30	Vulnerable	PCRE

cpe:2.3:a:pcre:pcre2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 10.30 Vulnerable ·PCRE

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Not affected: 7 products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 1
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2
Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3
Red Hat Software Collections

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2017-8399
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-wrv9-5822-445x

References

Patch 1

https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2?view=revision&revision=674

Advisory 2

Other 1

https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2/code/tags/pcre2-10.30/ChangeLog?revision=854&view=markup

TI-2022-19872 Integer overflow vulnerability in pcre2test before 10.41 allows attackers to cause a… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
TI-2025-35893 PCRE2: heap-buffer-overflow read in match_ref due to missing boundary restoration in SCS CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.9
TI-2026-60391 Integer overflow in PCRE2 CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.4
TI-2026-60393 Out-of-bounds read in PCRE2 CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
TI-2015-02839 Heap-based buffer overflow in PCRE 8.34 through 8.37 and PCRE2 10.10 allows remote… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2016-02677 The compile_branch function in pcre_compile.c in PCRE 8.x before 8.39 and pcre2_compile.c… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8

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Sources

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