CVE-2017-12883

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CVSS 3.0

9.1 critical

EPSS

6%p93

Published

Sep 19, 2017 (Sep 19, 2017)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

Buffer overflow in the S_grok_bslash_N function in regcomp.c in Perl 5 before 5.24.3-RC1 and 5.26.x before 5.26.1-RC1 allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted regular expression with an invalid '\N{U+...}' escape.

Vendors: perl
Products: perl
Weakness: CWE-119
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (5.9%)

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