CVE-2019-20454
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.09%pcre2 - security update
Published: 2/14/2020Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
An out-of-bounds read was discovered in PCRE before 10.34 when the pattern \X is JIT compiled and used to match specially crafted subjects in non-UTF mode. Applications that use PCRE to parse untrusted input may be vulnerable to this flaw, which would allow an attacker to crash the application. The flaw occurs in do_extuni_no_utf in pcre2_jit_compile.c.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/pcre2from 0, < 10.34-1
- Debian/pcre2from 0, < 10.32-5+deb10u1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |