Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-8395

Title: Pcre Perl Compatible Regular Expression Library Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-8395.

CWE Category CWE-119
Published Date Dec 02, 2015
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
3.54%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-8395: 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.

Impacted Vendors

P
pcre 1

Reference Links

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132 https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132 https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02
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-2015-8395 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

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.