{"id":"CVE-2017-9224","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-9224","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T21:18:23.487Z","title":"A stack out-of-bounds read occurs in match_at() during regular expression searching.","description":"An issue was discovered in Oniguruma 6.2.0, as used in Oniguruma-mod in Ruby through 2.4.1 and mbstring in PHP through 7.1.5. A stack out-of-bounds read occurs in match_at() during regular expression searching. A logical error involving order of validation and access in match_at() could result in an out-of-bounds read from a stack buffer.","published":"2017-05-24T15:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:27:42.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-125"],"affected":["oniguruma project/oniguruma","php/php"],"epss":{"score":0.0654,"percentile":0.93765,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (6.54%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101244","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1296","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma/commit/690313a061f7a4fa614ec5cc8368b4f2284e059b","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma/issues/57","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101244","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1296","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma/commit/690313a061f7a4fa614ec5cc8368b4f2284e059b","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma/issues/57","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9224","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."}