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high 7.5

CVE-2022-41409 json

Integer overflow vulnerability in pcre2test before 10.41 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impacts via neg…

published 2023-07-18 3 y ago modified 2026-07-18 3 mo ago also EUVD-2022-44602 , JLSEC-2026-59

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 66%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Integer overflow vulnerability in pcre2test before 10.41 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impacts via negative input.

Patch / fix

  • julia PCRE2_jll 10.41.0+0
  • pcre pcre2 10.41
  • pcre2 Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 10.42-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-41409

  • pcre2 SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 10.34-1.13.1
  • pcre2 SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP5, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP4, SLE Micro 5.4 +5 more 10.39-150400.4.9.1
  • pcre2 SLE Micro 5.2, SLE Micro 5.1, Manager Server 4.2 +1 more 10.31-150000.3.15.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2023:3328-1SUSE-SU-2023:3327-1SUSE-SU-2023:3210-1

  • pcre2 Alpine 3.16, Alpine 3.15 10.42-r0
  • pcre2 Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +5 more 10.41-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2022-41409

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • pcre2 CBL-Mariner 2.0 10.42-1

azure linux advisories AZL-27500

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-41409 updated cvss 5.3

pcre2: negative repeat value in a pcre2test subject line leads to inifinite loop

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 pcre2, pcre2-tools, pcre2-utf16, pcre2-utf32
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 pcre2, pcre2-tools, pcre2-utf16, pcre2-utf32 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 pcre2, pcre2-tools, pcre2-utf16, pcre2-utf32, pcre2-syntax
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-core-bff-rhel9, rhoai/odh-dashboard-rhel9, rhoai/odh-mod-arch-maas-rhel9, rhoai/odh-mod-arch-automl-rhel9, rhoai/odh-mod-arch-gen-ai-rhel9, rhoai/odh-mod-arch-mlflow-rhel9, +6 more
    under investigation
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-mlflow-rhel9, rhoai/odh-kube-rbac-proxy-rhel9, rhoai/odh-maas-controller-rhel9, rhoai/odh-mlflow-operator-rhel9, rhoai/odh-model-controller-rhel9, rhoai/odh-ogx-k8s-operator-rhel9, +14 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

cisa ICSA-24-046-11 updated cvss 7.5

Siemens SCALANCE XCM-/XRM-300

  • Siemens SCALANCE XCH328 (6GK5328-4TS01-2EC2) <V2.4 Siemens SCALANCE XCM324 (6GK5324-8TS01-2AC2) <V2.4 Siemens SCALANCE XCM328 (6GK5328-4TS01-2AC2) <V2.4 Siemens SCALANCE XCM332 (6GK5332-0GA01-2AC2) <V2.4 Siemens SCALANCE XRH334 (24 V DC, 8xFO, CC) (6GK5334-2TS01-2ER3) <V2.4 Siemens SCALANCE XRM334 (2x230 V AC, 8xFO) (6GK5334-2TS01-4AR3) <V2.4
    +5 more products
    Siemens SCALANCE XRM334 (2x230 V AC, 12xFO) (6GK5334-3TS01-4AR3) <V2.4 Siemens SCALANCE XRM334 (24 V DC, 8xFO) (6GK5334-2TS01-2AR3) <V2.4 Siemens SCALANCE XRM334 (24 V DC, 12xFO) (6GK5334-3TS01-2AR3) <V2.4 Siemens SCALANCE XRM334 (230 V AC, 8xFO) (6GK5334-2TS01-3AR3) <V2.4 Siemens SCALANCE XRM334 (230 V AC, 12xFO) (6GK5334-3TS01-3AR3) <V2.4
    affected: fixed in V2.4 support.industry.siemens.com

Facts from CISA's republication of the vendor's own advisory (CSAF); the linked advisory is the authoritative source. CISA notification · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

1.12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/PCRE2Project/pcre2/issues/141 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
OSV 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
julia PCRE2_jll
<10.41.0+0
10.41.0+0

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound

References

Sources

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