CVE-2015-8395: Pcre Perl Compatible Regular Expression Library

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles certain references, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service 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-2015-8392.

Affected products

• Pcre Perl Compatible Regular Expression Library: up to and including 8.37

Published 2015-12-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.