CVE-2016-2381

high-risk
Published 2016-04-08

Perl might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism in a child process via duplicate environment variables in envp.

Do I need to act?

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19.5% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 81% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
7
CVSS 7.5/10 High
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (19)

Affected Vendors

Canonical Opensuse Oracle Debian Perl

References (26)

Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00112.html
Vendor Advisory http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/ae37b791a73a9e78dedb89fb2429d2628c...
Third Party Advisory http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3501
Third Party Advisory http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/perl/porters/326387
Third Party Advisory http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2017-3236622.html
Third Party Advisory http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html
Third Party Advisory http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83802
Third Party Advisory http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2916-1
Third Party Advisory https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c...
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-75
Third Party Advisory https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
Third Party Advisory https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00112.html
Vendor Advisory http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/ae37b791a73a9e78dedb89fb2429d2628c...
Third Party Advisory http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3501
Third Party Advisory http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/perl/porters/326387
Third Party Advisory http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2017-3236622.html
Third Party Advisory http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html
Third Party Advisory http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
and 6 more references
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/ 100
high-risk
Severity 26/34 · High
Exploitability 14/34 · Moderate
Exposure 19/34 · Moderate