Vulnerability · Published Jun 15, 2020 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-14155
Medium 5.3
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in the pcre package (AlmaLinux). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 4.2% (higher than 91% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.
Severity (CVSS NVD)5.3Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)4.2%top 9.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
libpcre in PCRE before 8.44 allows an integer overflow via a large number after a (?C substring.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux:8 | pcre | 8.42-6.el8 | ALSA-2021:4373 |
| AlmaLinux:8 | pcre-cpp | 8.42-6.el8 | ALSA-2021:4373 |
| AlmaLinux:8 | pcre-devel | 8.42-6.el8 | ALSA-2021:4373 |
| AlmaLinux:8 | pcre-static | 8.42-6.el8 | ALSA-2021:4373 |
| AlmaLinux:8 | pcre-utf16 | 8.42-6.el8 | ALSA-2021:4373 |
| AlmaLinux:8 | pcre-utf32 | 8.42-6.el8 | ALSA-2021:4373 |
| Alpine:v3.20 | pcre | 8.44-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2020-14155 |
| Alpine:v3.21 | pcre | 8.44-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2020-14155 |
| Alpine:v3.22 | pcre | 8.44-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2020-14155 |
| Alpine:v3.23 | pcre | 8.44-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2020-14155 |
| Alpine:v3.24 | pcre | 8.44-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2020-14155 |
| Debian:12 | pcre3 | 2:8.39-13 | DEBIAN-CVE-2020-14155 |
| Rocky Linux:8 | pcre | 0:8.42-6.el8 | RLSA-2021:4373 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | pcre3 | 2:8.39-13ubuntu0.22.04.1 | USN-5425-1 |
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/717920
- https://www.pcre.org/original/changelog.txt
- 20201215 APPLE-SA-2020-12-14-4 Additional information for APPLE-SA-2020-11-13-1 macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 mailing-list
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT211931
- 20210201 APPLE-SA-2021-02-01-1 macOS Big Sur 11.2, Security Update 2021-001 Catalina, Security Update 2021-001 Mojave mailing-list
- [mina-dev] 20210225 [jira] [Created] (FTPSERVER-500) Security vulnerability in common/lib/log4j-1.2.17.jar mailing-list
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212147
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
- https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/07/01/security-release-13-1-2-release/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221028-0010/