Improper Certificate Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package perl (opens in a new tab)
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- published4 Jul 2023
- disclosed29 Apr 2023
Introduced: 29 Apr 2023
CVE-2023-31484 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perl package and not the perl package as distributed by RHEL.
CPAN.pm before 2.35 does not verify TLS certificates when downloading distributions over HTTPS.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-31484
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BM6UW55CNFUTNGD5ZRKGUKKKFDJGMFHL/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LEGCEOKFJVBJ2QQ6S2H4NAEWTUERC7SB/
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/29/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/05/03/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/05/03/5
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/05/07/2
- https://blog.hackeriet.no/perl-http-tiny-insecure-tls-default-affects-cpan-modules/
- https://github.com/andk/cpanpm/pull/175
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/10/msg00017.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BM6UW55CNFUTNGD5ZRKGUKKKFDJGMFHL/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LEGCEOKFJVBJ2QQ6S2H4NAEWTUERC7SB/
- https://metacpan.org/dist/CPAN/changes
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240621-0007/
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/18/14