CVE-2017-11164

7.5 highEPSS 3.1%

High (7.5) in pcre pcre. EPSS 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In PCRE 8.41, the OP_KETRMAX feature in the match function in pcre_exec.c allows stack exhaustion (uncontrolled recursion) when processing a crafted regular expression.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.5 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 87% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-674
Published: 2017-07-11
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

pcre:pcre

References

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/07/11/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/11/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/12/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99575
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E

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