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Vulnerability details: VCID-u91f-7kb8-s3hc
Vulnerability ID VCID-u91f-7kb8-s3hc
Aliases CVE-2015-2325
Summary The compile_branch function in PCRE before 8.37 allows context-dependent attackers to compile incorrect code, cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap read and crash), or possibly have other unspecified impact via a regular expression with a group containing a forward reference repeated a large number of times within a repeated outer group that has a zero minimum quantifier.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 7.0
Risk 3.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow
System Score Found at
epss 0.00661 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2325
epss 0.00661 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2325
epss 0.00661 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2325
epss 0.00661 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2325
epss 0.00661 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2325
epss 0.00661 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2325
epss 0.00661 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2325
epss 0.00661 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2325
epss 0.00661 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2325
epss 0.00661 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2325
epss 0.00661 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2325
epss 0.00661 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2325
epss 0.00661 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2325
epss 0.00661 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2325
epss 0.00661 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2325
epss 0.00661 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2325
epss 0.00661 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2325
epss 0.00661 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2325
epss 0.00661 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2325
epss 0.00661 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2325
epss 0.00661 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2325
epss 0.00661 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2325
epss 0.00661 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2325
epss 0.00661 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2325
epss 0.00661 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2325
epss 0.00661 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2325
epss 0.00661 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2325
cvssv2 6.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2325
cvssv3.1 7.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2325
Reference id Reference type URL
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00014.html
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2015-2325.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2325
https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1591
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2325
https://fortiguard.com/zeroday/FG-VD-15-015
https://www.pcre.org/original/changelog.txt
1207198 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1207198
781795 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=781795
cpe:2.3:a:mariadb:mariadb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:mariadb:mariadb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:pcre:pcre:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:pcre:pcre:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2015-2325 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2325
RHSA-2016:2750 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2750
USN-2694-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/2694-1/
USN-2943-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/2943-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2325
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2325
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.70231
EPSS Score 0.00661
Published At July 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T08:39:36.022681+00:00 Ubuntu USN Importer Import https://usn.ubuntu.com/2943-1/ 37.0.0