diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 96d8cab8a..10b7ab867 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 2023-11-01  Oliver Kiddle  <opk@zsh.org>
 
+	* 52252: Src/Modules/pcre.c: Coverity defect 1547827
+
 	* Shohei YOSHIDA: 52179: Completion/Unix/Command/_gradle:
 	Fix gradlew completion when it isn't in PATH
 
diff --git a/Src/Modules/pcre.c b/Src/Modules/pcre.c
index 96f3c6e65..f5cda6d38 100644
--- a/Src/Modules/pcre.c
+++ b/Src/Modules/pcre.c
@@ -187,7 +187,8 @@ zpcre_get_substrings(pcre2_code *pat, char *arg, pcre2_match_data *mdata,
 	    setaparam(substravar, matches);
 	}
 
-	if (!pcre2_pattern_info(pat, PCRE2_INFO_NAMECOUNT, &ncount) && ncount
+	if (namedassoc
+		&& !pcre2_pattern_info(pat, PCRE2_INFO_NAMECOUNT, &ncount) && ncount
 		&& !pcre2_pattern_info(pat, PCRE2_INFO_NAMEENTRYSIZE, &nsize)
 		&& !pcre2_pattern_info(pat, PCRE2_INFO_NAMETABLE, &ntable))
 	{