CVE-2008-7319

moderate-risk

Published 2017-11-07

The Net::Ping::External extension through 0.15 for Perl does not properly sanitize arguments (e.g., invalid hostnames) containing shell metacharacters before use of backticks in External.pm, allowing for shell command injection and arbitrary command execution if untrusted input is used.

Do I need to act?

7.8% chance of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS score — moderate exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 9.8/10 Critical

NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Net-Ping-External

Affected Vendors

Net-Ping-External Project

References (8)

Issue Tracking http://matthias.sdfeu.org/devel/net-ping-external-cmd-injection.patch

Issue Tracking http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/07/4

Issue Tracking https://bugs.debian.org/881097

Issue Tracking https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=33230

Issue Tracking http://matthias.sdfeu.org/devel/net-ping-external-cmd-injection.patch

Issue Tracking http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/07/4

Issue Tracking https://bugs.debian.org/881097

Issue Tracking https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=33230

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moderate-risk

Severity 32/34 · Critical

Exploitability 10/34 · Low

Exposure 5/34 · Minimal