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CVE-2020-14155

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-06-15 · updated 2026-10-08
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

libpcre in PCRE before 8.44 allows an integer overflow via a large number after a (?C substring.

Affected products

• Apple macOS: before 11.0.1 — fixed in 11.0.1
• GitLab: before 12.10.13; from 13.0.0 before 13.0.8; from 13.1.0 before 13.1.2 — fixed in 12.10.13, 13.0.8, 13.1.2
• Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere, Linux, and Microsoft Windows: all versions
• NetApp Cloud Backup: all versions
• Clustered Data ONTAP: all versions
• NetApp H300S Firmware: all versions
• NetApp H410C Firmware: all versions
• NetApp H410S Firmware: all versions
• NetApp H500S Firmware: all versions
• NetApp H700S Firmware: all versions
• NetApp ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility: all versions
• NetApp Steelstore Cloud Integrated Storage: all versions
• Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Policy: 1.15.0
• Pcre: before 8.44 — fixed in 8.44
• Splunk Universal Forwarder: from 8.2.0 before 8.2.12; from 9.0.0 before 9.0.6; 9.1.0 — fixed in 8.2.12, 9.0.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Apple macOS 11.0.1; GitLab 12.10.13, 13.0.8, 13.1.2; Pcre 8.44; Splunk Universal Forwarder 8.2.12, 9.0.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Dec/32
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Feb/14
• https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/07/01/security-release-13-1-2-release/
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/717920
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221028-0010/
• https://support.apple.com/kb/HT211931
• https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212147
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
• https://www.pcre.org/original/changelog.txt
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Dec/32
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Feb/14

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