VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2007-1662

CVSS score5 NONE
EPSS probability2.53%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2007-11-07
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.3 reads past the end of the string when searching for unmatched brackets and parentheses, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), possibly involving forward references.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Primary references