Base weakness
Incomplete
CWE-624: Executable Regular Expression Error
The product uses a regular expression that either (1) contains an executable component with user-controlled inputs, or (2) allows a user to enable execution by inserting pattern modifiers.
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Recorded CVEs
With this primary weakness
0
KEVs
In the CISA KEV catalog
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Likelihood of exploit
Per MITRE
Base
Abstraction
MITRE classification
Overview
Case (2) is possible in the PHP preg_replace() function, and possibly in other languages when a user-controlled input is inserted into a string that is later parsed as a regular expression.