CVE-2015-3217

mediumpriority · track · 32EPSS 0.062 · 93 %ileEUFRUS
grimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
6.17% (93rd) EPSS
CVSS 5 · medium
Is it mine?
11 products
Check your exposure
Who says so?
4 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · certfr

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

PCRE 7.8 and 8.32 through 8.37, and PCRE2 10.10 mishandle group empty matches, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by /^(?:(?(1)\\.|([^\\\\W_])?)+)+$/.

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cvss

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7.5
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9
v3.07.5highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6
v3.06.9mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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affected products (11)

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advisories (1)

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also known as (3)

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published 2016-12-13modified 2026-06-17
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