CVSS 3.0
7.3 highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LCVE-2015-8607
The canonpath function in the File::Spec module in PathTools before 3.62, as used in Perl, does not properly preserve the taint attribute of data, which might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism via a crafted string.
Severity
- EPSS
- 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 87% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-20
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- debian:debian_linux
- perl:pathtools
References
- http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/RJBS/PathTools-3.62/Changes
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175494.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176228.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00112.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3441