CVE-2007-1659: pcre

Modified

AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2007-1659

Published 07-11-2007Last modified 07-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2007-1659 is a medium (CVSS 6.8) vulnerability in pcre. EPSS estimates a 3.53% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority

Routine

Not severe (CVSS 6.8, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?

CVSS score

6.8/10

010

Medium · v2.0 (NVD)

EPSS score

3.53%

0%100%

Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days

KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.

RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.

Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 5

DSA-1399-1 DSA-1570-1 DTSA-77-1 RHSA-2007:0967 RHSA-2007:1068

Timeline

07-11-2007
PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
07-08-2024
Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via regex patterns containing unmatched "\Q\E" sequences with orphan "\E" codes.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

v2.06.8

EPSS trend

Probability

3.53%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

89%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 3.53% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary.

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Debian2 products

glib2.0< 2.14.3-1
pcre3< 7.3-1

Pcre1 product

pcre≤ 7.3

2 vendors · 3 products

References

59 links

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security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-30.xmlVendor AdvisoryX Refsource GENTOO
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secunia.com/advisories/28136Third Party AdvisoryX Refsource SECUNIAVendor Advisory
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www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1570Vendor AdvisoryX Refsource DEBIAN
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secunia.com/advisories/29420Third Party AdvisoryX Refsource SECUNIAVendor Advisory
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security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-1659Advisory