THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2016-2381
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2016-2381

Perl vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
9.0%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
Perl might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism in a child process via duplicate environment variables in envp.
Affected vendor
Perl
Affected product
Perl
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation
Published
2016-04-08

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 9.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

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