CyberRota Analysis
This is a critical severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.1. It may be remotely exploitable. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2017-12883
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.1
EPSS
5.91%
Original NVD Description
Buffer overflow in the S_grok_bslash_N function in regcomp.c in Perl 5 before 5.24.3-RC1 and 5.26.x before 5.26.1-RC1 allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted regular expression with an invalid '\N{U+...}' escape.
Related CVEs
Other vulnerabilities affecting the same vendor(s)