{"id":"CVE-2015-8382","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2015-8382","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T21:42:32.293Z","title":"The match function in pcre_exec.c in PCRE before 8.37 mishandles the /(?:((abcd))|(((?:(?:(?:(?:abc|(?:abcdef))))b)abcdefghi)abc)|((*ACCEPT)))/ pattern and related patterns involving (*ACCEPT), which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive…","description":"The match function in pcre_exec.c in PCRE before 8.37 mishandles the /(?:((abcd))|(((?:(?:(?:(?:abc|(?:abcdef))))b)abcdefghi)abc)|((*ACCEPT)))/ pattern and related patterns involving (*ACCEPT), which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service (partially initialized memory and application crash) via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror, aka ZDI-CAN-2547.","published":"2015-12-02T01:59:06.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:34:26.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":6.4,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P"},"cwe":["CWE-119"],"affected":["pcre/perl compatible regular expression library"],"epss":{"score":0.03963,"percentile":0.90373,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (3.96%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c351b47ce85a3a147cfa801fa9f0149ab4160834","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/pcre_exec.c?r1=1502&r2=1510","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/04/3","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76157","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1537","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1187225","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c351b47ce85a3a147cfa801fa9f0149ab4160834","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/pcre_exec.c?r1=1502&r2=1510","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/04/3","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76157","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1537","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1187225","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8382","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}