Improper Input Validation Affecting perl5 package, versions [,5.23.9)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
9.08% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PERL5-2317626
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed8 Apr 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Apr 2016

CVE-2016-2381  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade perl5 to version 5.23.9 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. Perl might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism in a child process via duplicate environment variables in envp.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1