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Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting perl package, versions <5.14.2-16

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Mature
    EPSS
    58.02% (98th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-PERL-528399
  • published 4 Jan 2013
  • disclosed 4 Jan 2013
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Introduced: 4 Jan 2013

CVE-2012-6329 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-94 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 perl to version 5.14.2-16 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perl package and not the perl package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

The _compile function in Maketext.pm in the Locale::Maketext implementation in Perl before 5.17.7 does not properly handle backslashes and fully qualified method names during compilation of bracket notation, which allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary commands via crafted input to an application that accepts translation strings from users, as demonstrated by the TWiki application before 5.1.3, and the Foswiki application 1.0.x through 1.0.10 and 1.1.x through 1.1.6.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

Recommended
7.3 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    Low
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Red Hat

5.6 medium