Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-8399

Title: Pcre Pcre2 Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-8399.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date May 01, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 9.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.12%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-8399: 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."

Impacted Vendors

pcre 1

Reference Links

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98315 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=783 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-09 https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2/code/tags/pcre2-10.30/ChangeLog?revision=854&view=markup https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2?view=revision&revision=674 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98315 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=783 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-09 https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2/code/tags/pcre2-10.30/ChangeLog?revision=854&view=markup https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2?view=revision&revision=674

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity CRITICAL

9.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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