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CVE-2018-20796

7.5 highEPSS 5.8%

In the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.29, check_dst_limits_calc_pos_1 in posix/regexec.c has Uncontrolled Recursion, as demonstrated by '(\227|)(\\1\\1|t1|\\\2537)+' in grep.

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
5.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 93% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-674
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

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