CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.4. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2007-1661
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.4
EPSS
2.49%
Original NVD Description
Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.3 backtracks too far when matching certain input bytes against some regex patterns in non-UTF-8 mode, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service (crash), as demonstrated by the "\X?\d" and "\P{L}?\d" patterns.