Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting perl5 package, versions [5.23.0,5.24.1)[5.25.0,5.25.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PERL5-2317624
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed2 Aug 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Aug 2016

CVE-2016-6185  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade perl5 to version 5.24.1, 5.25.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. The XSLoader::load method in XSLoader in Perl does not properly locate .so files when called in a string eval, which might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse library under the current working directory.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1