Perl vulnerabilitiesNone on the known-exploited list.
Perl has 67 published vulnerabilities across 10 products in our catalogue. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. The most affected product is Perl, with 53. If you run Perl software, patch the exploited flaws first.
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Which Perl products have the most vulnerabilities?
Perl leads with 53 published vulnerabilities. Open a product to see its versions and which of its flaws criminals are already using.
Which Perl vulnerabilities are being exploited?
This is the list that matters most: flaws criminals are using now.
None of Perl's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.
Which Perl flaws are most likely to be used?
Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.
- 64%CVE-2012-6329High
The _compile function in Maketext.pm in the Locale::Maketext implementation in Perl before 5.17.7 does not properly handle backslashes and fully qualified method names during compilation of bracket notation, which...
- 13%CVE-2005-1349High
Buffer overflow in Convert-UUlib (Convert::UUlib) before 1.051 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed parameter to a read operation.
- 13%CVE-2018-18312Critical
Perl before 5.26.3 and 5.28.0 before 5.28.1 has a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression that triggers invalid write operations.
- 12%CVE-2018-18311Critical
Perl before 5.26.3 and 5.28.x before 5.28.1 has a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression that triggers invalid write operations.
- 11%CVE-2020-10543High
Perl before 5.30.3 on 32-bit platforms allows a heap-based buffer overflow because nested regular expression quantifiers have an integer overflow.
- 11%CVE-2018-6913Critical
Heap-based buffer overflow in the pack function in Perl before 5.26.2 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large item count.
- 11%CVE-2011-1487Medium
The (1) lc, (2) lcfirst, (3) uc, and (4) ucfirst functions in Perl 5.10.x, 5.11.x, and 5.12.x through 5.12.3, and 5.13.x through 5.13.11, do not apply the taint attribute to the return value upon processing tainted...
- 9.5%CVE-2018-18313Critical
Perl before 5.26.3 has a buffer over-read via a crafted regular expression that triggers disclosure of sensitive information from process memory.
- 9.1%CVE-2016-2381High
Perl might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism in a child process via duplicate environment variables in envp.
- 8.9%CVE-2011-0761Medium
Perl 5.10.x allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) by leveraging an ability to inject arguments into a (1) getpeername, (2) readdir, (3)...
All Perl products we track.
7 products, most vulnerabilities first. Find the ones you run, then open a product to see its versions and exploited flaws.
- Perlperl53 vulnerabilities467 versions
- Dbidbi5 vulnerabilities156 versions
- Database Interfacedatabase_interface2 vulnerabilities57 versions
- Cgi Litecgi_lite1 vulnerability1 version
- Comprehensive Perl Archive Networkcomprehensive_perl_archive_network1 vulnerability156 versions
- Pathtoolspathtools1 vulnerability1 version
- Pcrepcre1 vulnerability52 versions
This directory lists the 7 Perl products with at least one tracked version, of 10 in our catalogue.
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The _compile function in Maketext.pm in the Locale::Maketext implementation in Perl before 5.17.7 does not properly handle backslashes and fully qualified method names during compilation of bracket notation, which allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary commands via crafted input to an application that accepts translation strings from users, as demonstrated by the TWiki application before 5.1.3, and the Foswiki application 1.0.x through 1.0.10 and 1.1.x through 1.1.6.
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Our catalogue lists 67 published vulnerabilities across 10 products and 890 versions from Perl.
None of Perl's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.
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