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CVE-2022-1586

Published: May 16, 2022Updated: Mar 25, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-125
NVD MITRE
9.1CVSSCRITICAL
EPSS Score
3.0%
Top 14.4%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was discovered in the PCRE2 library in the compile_xclass_matchingpath() function of the pcre2_jit_compile.c file. This involves a unicode property matching issue in JIT-compiled regular expressions. The issue occurs because the character was not fully read in case-less matching within JIT.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:HI:NA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:HConfidentiality
High
I:NIntegrity
None
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-125

Affected Products

pcre2pcre
Library
OSS Libraries / generic-library
fedorafedoraproject
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
enterprise linuxredhat
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
active iq unified managernetappHardware Firmware
hci management nodenetappHardware Firmware
pcreoss-projectOSS Librariesaka perl compatible regular expression library, pcre2
fedoraprojectoss-projectUSOperating Systemsaka fedora project
redhatcommercialUSOperating Systemsaka red hat
netappcommercialUSHardware Firmware
and 16 more affected products View all →

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique
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References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2077976%2C
bugzilla.redhat.com
https://github.com/PCRE2Project/pcre2/commit/50a51cb7e67268e6ad417eb07c9de9bfea5cc55a%2C
github.com
https://github.com/PCRE2Project/pcre2/commit/d4fa336fbcc388f89095b184ba6d99422cfc676c
github.com
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Timeline

Published
May 16, 2022
Last Updated
Mar 25, 2025

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