Vulnerability Instance
Lookup for vulnerabilities affecting packages.
GET /api/vulnerabilities/62238?format=api
{ "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/vulnerabilities/62238?format=api", "vulnerability_id": "VCID-udjb-6f7h-9fah", "summary": "Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in the PCRE Library, the\n worst of which may allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service\n condition.", "aliases": [ { "alias": "CVE-2017-7245" } ], "fixed_packages": [ { "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/packages/374595?format=api", "purl": "pkg:alpm/archlinux/pcre@8.41-1", "is_vulnerable": false, "affected_by_vulnerabilities": [], "resource_url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/packages/pkg:alpm/archlinux/pcre@8.41-1" }, { "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/packages/547938?format=api", "purl": "pkg:apk/alpine/pcre@8.41-r0?arch=aarch64&distroversion=v3.6&reponame=main", "is_vulnerable": false, "affected_by_vulnerabilities": [], "resource_url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/packages/pkg:apk/alpine/pcre@8.41-r0%3Farch=aarch64&distroversion=v3.6&reponame=main" }, { "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/packages/547939?format=api", "purl": "pkg:apk/alpine/pcre@8.41-r0?arch=armhf&distroversion=v3.6&reponame=main", "is_vulnerable": false, "affected_by_vulnerabilities": [], "resource_url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/packages/pkg:apk/alpine/pcre@8.41-r0%3Farch=armhf&distroversion=v3.6&reponame=main" }, { "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/packages/547940?format=api", "purl": "pkg:apk/alpine/pcre@8.41-r0?arch=ppc64le&distroversion=v3.6&reponame=main", "is_vulnerable": false, "affected_by_vulnerabilities": [], "resource_url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/packages/pkg:apk/alpine/pcre@8.41-r0%3Farch=ppc64le&distroversion=v3.6&reponame=main" }, { "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/packages/547941?format=api", "purl": "pkg:apk/alpine/pcre@8.41-r0?arch=s390x&distroversion=v3.6&reponame=main", "is_vulnerable": false, "affected_by_vulnerabilities": [], "resource_url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/packages/pkg:apk/alpine/pcre@8.41-r0%3Farch=s390x&distroversion=v3.6&reponame=main" }, { "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/packages/547942?format=api", "purl": "pkg:apk/alpine/pcre@8.41-r0?arch=x86&distroversion=v3.6&reponame=main", "is_vulnerable": false, "affected_by_vulnerabilities": [], "resource_url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/packages/pkg:apk/alpine/pcre@8.41-r0%3Farch=x86&distroversion=v3.6&reponame=main" }, { "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/packages/547943?format=api", "purl": "pkg:apk/alpine/pcre@8.41-r0?arch=x86_64&distroversion=v3.6&reponame=main", "is_vulnerable": false, "affected_by_vulnerabilities": [], "resource_url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/packages/pkg:apk/alpine/pcre@8.41-r0%3Farch=x86_64&distroversion=v3.6&reponame=main" }, { "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/packages/85825?format=api", "purl": "pkg:ebuild/dev-libs/libpcre@8.41", "is_vulnerable": false, "affected_by_vulnerabilities": [], "resource_url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/packages/pkg:ebuild/dev-libs/libpcre@8.41" } ], "affected_packages": [ { "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/packages/374594?format=api", "purl": "pkg:alpm/archlinux/pcre@8.40-1", "is_vulnerable": true, "affected_by_vulnerabilities": [ { "vulnerability": "VCID-7386-q1qx-2fgr" }, { "vulnerability": "VCID-tgck-ak8c-c7aj" }, { "vulnerability": "VCID-udjb-6f7h-9fah" }, { "vulnerability": "VCID-ywee-ghvk-pubu" } ], "resource_url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/packages/pkg:alpm/archlinux/pcre@8.40-1" } ], "references": [ { "reference_url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486", "reference_id": "", "reference_type": "", "scores": [], "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486" }, { "reference_url": "https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-7245.json", "reference_id": "", "reference_type": "", "scores": [ { "value": "3.7", "scoring_system": "cvssv3", "scoring_elements": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L" } ], "url": "https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-7245.json" }, { "reference_url": "https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-7245", "reference_id": "", "reference_type": "", "scores": [ { "value": "0.00254", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.48685", "published_at": "2026-04-01T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "0.00254", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.488", "published_at": "2026-04-18T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "0.00254", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.48756", "published_at": "2026-04-09T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "0.00254", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.48774", "published_at": "2026-04-11T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "0.00254", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.48747", "published_at": "2026-04-12T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "0.00254", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.48755", "published_at": "2026-04-13T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "0.00254", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.48804", "published_at": "2026-04-16T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "0.00254", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.48724", "published_at": "2026-04-02T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "0.00254", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.4875", "published_at": "2026-04-04T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "0.00254", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.48705", "published_at": "2026-04-07T12:55:00Z" }, { "value": "0.00254", "scoring_system": "epss", "scoring_elements": "0.48759", "published_at": "2026-04-08T12:55:00Z" } ], "url": "https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-7245" }, { "reference_url": "https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/03/20/libpcre-two-stack-based-buffer-overflow-write-in-pcre32_copy_substring-pcre_get-c/", "reference_id": "", "reference_type": "", "scores": [], "url": "https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/03/20/libpcre-two-stack-based-buffer-overflow-write-in-pcre32_copy_substring-pcre_get-c/" }, { "reference_url": "https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7245", "reference_id": "", "reference_type": "", "scores": [], "url": "https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7245" }, { "reference_url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml", "reference_id": "", "reference_type": "", "scores": [ { "value": "5.8", "scoring_system": "cvssv2", "scoring_elements": "AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P" }, { "value": "3.7", "scoring_system": "cvssv3.1", "scoring_elements": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L" } ], "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml" }, { "reference_url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97067", "reference_id": "", "reference_type": "", "scores": [], "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97067" }, { "reference_url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1437367", "reference_id": "1437367", "reference_type": "", "scores": [], "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1437367" }, { "reference_url": "https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=858678", "reference_id": "858678", "reference_type": "", "scores": [], "url": "https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=858678" }, { "reference_url": "https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201707-20", "reference_id": "ASA-201707-20", "reference_type": "", "scores": [], "url": "https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201707-20" }, { "reference_url": "https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-222", "reference_id": "AVG-222", "reference_type": "", "scores": [ { "value": "Medium", "scoring_system": "archlinux", "scoring_elements": "" } ], "url": "https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-222" }, { "reference_url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:pcre:pcre:8.40:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "reference_id": "cpe:2.3:a:pcre:pcre:8.40:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "reference_type": "", "scores": [], "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:pcre:pcre:8.40:*:*:*:*:*:*:*" }, { "reference_url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7245", "reference_id": "CVE-2017-7245", "reference_type": "", "scores": [ { "value": "6.8", "scoring_system": "cvssv2", "scoring_elements": "AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P" }, { "value": "7.8", "scoring_system": "cvssv3", "scoring_elements": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H" } ], "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7245" }, { "reference_url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-25", "reference_id": "GLSA-201710-25", "reference_type": "", "scores": [], "url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-25" } ], "weaknesses": [ { "cwe_id": 20, "name": "Improper Input Validation", "description": "The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly." }, { "cwe_id": 119, "name": "Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer", "description": "The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer." } ], "exploits": [], "severity_range_score": "3.7 - 7.8", "exploitability": "0.5", "weighted_severity": "7.0", "risk_score": 3.5, "resource_url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/vulnerabilities/VCID-udjb-6f7h-9fah" }