CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NCVE-2016-2381
High (7.5). EPSS 9.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Perl might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism in a child process via duplicate environment variables in envp.
Severity
- EPSS
- 9.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 95% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-20
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- debian:debian_linux
- opensuse:opensuse
- oracle:communications_billing_and_revenue_management
- oracle:configuration_manager
- oracle:database_server
- oracle:enterprise_manager_base_platform
- oracle:solaris
- oracle:timesten_in-memory_database
- perl:perl
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00112.html
- http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/ae37b791a73a9e78dedb89fb2429d2628cf58076
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3501
- http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/perl/porters/326387
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2017-3236622.html