diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/pcre2/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/pcre2/default.nix
index 447b8fe15ec0..9915de6fddc0 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/pcre2/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/pcre2/default.nix
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, fetchpatch }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "pcre2-10.21";
+  name = "pcre2-${version}";
+  version = "10.23";
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/${name}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "1q6lrj9b08l1q39vxipb0fi88x6ybvkr6439h8bjb9r8jd81fsn6";
+    sha256 = "0vn5g0mkkp99mmzpissa06hpyj6pk9s4mlwbjqrjvw3ihy8rpiyz";
   };
 
   configureFlags = [
@@ -13,8 +14,31 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     "--enable-jit"
   ];
 
-  meta = {
-	description = "Perl Compatible Regular Expressions";
+  patches = [
+    (fetchpatch {
+      name = "CVE-2017-7186-part1.patch";
+      url = "https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2/code/trunk/src/pcre2_ucd.c?view=patch&r1=316&r2=670&sortby=date";
+      sha256 = "10yzglvbn7h06hg7zffr5zh378i5jihvx7d5gggkynws79vgwvfr";
+      stripLen = 2;
+      addPrefixes = true;
+    })
+    (fetchpatch {
+      name = "CVE-2017-7186-part2.patch";
+      url = "https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2/code/trunk/src/pcre2_internal.h?view=patch&r1=600&r2=670&sortby=date";
+      sha256 = "1bggk7vd5hg0bjg96lj4h1lacmr6grq68dm6iz1n7vg3zf7virjn";
+      stripLen = 2;
+      addPrefixes = true;
+    })
+  ];
+
+  outputs = [ "bin" "dev" "out" "doc" "man" "devdoc" ];
+
+  postFixup = ''
+    moveToOutput bin/pcre2-config "$dev"
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Perl Compatible Regular Expressions";
     homepage = "http://www.pcre.org/";
     license = stdenv.lib.licenses.bsd3;
     maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.ttuegel ];