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CVE-2022-1587

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-05-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was discovered in the PCRE2 library in the get_recurse_data_length() function of the pcre2_jit_compile.c file. This issue affects recursions in JIT-compiled regular expressions caused by duplicate data transfers.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 35, 36
• Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere, Linux, and Microsoft Windows: 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 Hci Management Node: all versions
• NetApp ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility: all versions
• NetApp Solidfire: all versions
• PCRE2: before 10.40 — fixed in 10.40
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 9.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: PCRE2 10.40. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2077983%2C
• https://github.com/PCRE2Project/pcre2/commit/03654e751e7f0700693526b67dfcadda6b42c9d0
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/03/msg00014.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DWNG2NS3GINO6LQYUVC4BZLUQPJ3DYHA/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JXINO3KKI5DICQ45E2FKD6MKVMGJLEKJ/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KAX7767BCUFC7JMDGP7GOQ5GIZCAUGBB/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M2GLQQUEY5VFM57CFYXVIFOXN2HUZPDM/
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221028-0009/
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2077983%2C
• https://github.com/PCRE2Project/pcre2/commit/03654e751e7f0700693526b67dfcadda6b42c9d0
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/03/msg00014.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DWNG2NS3GINO6LQYUVC4BZLUQPJ3DYHA/

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