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CVE-2015-8390

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 EPSS 4.62%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2015-12-02 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2015-8390
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
4.62%
Java

Original NVD Description

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the [: and \\ substrings in character classes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror.