CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5. It affects Java. It may be remotely exploitable. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2015-8392
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
3.56%
Java
Original NVD Description
PCRE before 8.38 mishandles certain instances of the (?| substring, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (unintended recursion and buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror, a related issue to CVE-2015-8384 and CVE-2015-8395.