CVE-2012-5377

no score yetEPSS 1.3%

activestate activeperl: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installation functionality in ActivePerl 5.16.1.1601, when installed in the top-level C:\ directory, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the C:\Perl\Site\bin directory, which is added to the PATH system environment variable, as demonstrated by a Trojan horse wlbsctrl.dll file used by the "IKE and AuthIP IPsec Keying Modules" system service in Windows Vista SP1, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows 7 SP1, and Windows 8 Release Preview.

EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 69% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
Published: 2012-10-11
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

activestate:activeperl

References

http://osvdb.org/86177
https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23108
http://osvdb.org/86177
https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23108

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