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GHSA-q8g2-wprr-34m9 — pcre2

MEDIUM

GHSA-q8g2-wprr-34m9 is a medium-severity (CVSS 5.7) CWE-190 vulnerability. A fix is available — see the affected versions and patch details below.

Published
Updated
Affected
1 product
Patched
See advisory
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Oct 17, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
0.3%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs19th percentile — riskier than 19% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.00%0.26%0.52%0.78%0.3%0.3%Oct 26Oct 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

GHSA-q8g2-wprr-34m9 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). Outside the shaded patch-first corner.

Where this sits among everything scored

Of 395,249 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.

Description

PCRE2 before 10.48, on 32-bit platforms, has a pcre2_pattern_convert out-of-bounds write when an attacker can provide a large pattern.

Affected Products

1 product · 2 configurations
Application
pcre2pcre
≥ 10.30 && < 10.48
1 version
10.48

Detection & mitigation playbook

Vulnerability

  1. Detect

    Identify every host running the affected component and compare the installed build against the fixed version below — for source-built or distro-packaged software the version string, not a lockfile, is the source of truth (`dpkg -l`, `rpm -q`, or the binary's own `--version`).

  2. Fix

    Upgrade the affected component to the fixed release for GHSA-q8g2-wprr-34m9, or apply your distribution's backported patch — distro builds are often patched at an older version number, so check your vendor's advisory rather than the upstream version alone.

  3. Workarounds

    Constrain what reaches the vulnerable code: limit the size and shape of untrusted input, isolate the affected component in a sandboxed or least-privileged process, and enable the platform's memory-safety mitigations (ASLR, stack protector, hardened allocator) so an out-of-bounds access is more likely to fail closed than to be exploitable.

Fixing This On Your OS

If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.

Red HatModerate

This out-of-bounds write vulnerability in PCRE2 on 32-bit platforms could lead to data corruption with high integrity impact and potential denial of service. Exploitation requires an attacker to provide a specially crafted large pattern, but no privileges or user interaction are needed.

Workaround published by Red Hat
Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.
Source: Red Hat security advisory for GHSA-q8g2-wprr-34m9 (CC BY 4.0)
ProductFixed inAdvisory
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10pcre2-0:10.44-1.5.el10_2RHSA-2026:81522
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8pcre2-0:10.32-4.el8_10RHSA-2026:81613
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9pcre2-0:10.40-7.el9_8RHSA-2026:81532
Red Hat Hardened Imagespcre2-main-10.48-0.1.hum1RHSA-2026:67534
Red Hat Update Infrastructure 5rhui5/cds-kubernetes-rhel9:1791978534RHSA-2026:82939

Frequently Asked Questions

PCRE2 before 10.48, on 32-bit platforms, has a pcre2_pattern_convert out-of-bounds write when an attacker can provide a large pattern.
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GHSA-q8g2-wprr-34m9: pcre2 (Medium 5.7)