Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-2328

Title: Pcre Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-2328.

CWE Category CWE-19

Published Date Dec 02, 2015

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

5.24%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-2328: PCRE before 8.36 mishandles the /((?(R)a|(?1)))+/ pattern and related patterns with certain recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror.

Impacted Vendors

pcre 1

perl 1

Reference Links

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1025.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1023886 http://www.fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-VD-15-014/ http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74924 https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1515 https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-17252 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1025.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1023886 http://www.fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-VD-15-014/ http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74924 https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1515 https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-17252

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-2328 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 02, 2015 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.