Information Exposure Affecting pcre package, versions [,8.38)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.39% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PCRE-2319137
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed2 Dec 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Dec 2015

CVE-2015-8393  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade pcre to version 8.38 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure pcregrep in PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the -q option for binary files, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted file, as demonstrated by a CGI script that sends stdout data to a client.

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