THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2008-0674
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2008-0674

Pcre vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
5.9%
EPSS pct
92th
Exploited
No known
Buffer overflow in PCRE before 7.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a regular expression containing a character class with a large number of characters with Unicode code points greater than 255.
Affected vendor
Pcre
Affected product
Pcre
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2008-02-18

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 5.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Confirm whether Pcre Pcre is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-0674.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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