CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-16156
High (7.8). EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
CPAN 2.28 allows Signature Verification Bypass.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 58% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-347
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- fedoraproject:fedora
- perl:comprehensive_perl_archive_network
References
- http://blogs.perl.org/users/neilb/2021/11/addressing-cpan-vulnerabilities-related-to-checksums.html
- https://blog.hackeriet.no/cpan-signature-verification-vulnerabilities/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SD6RYOJII7HRJ6WVORFNVTYNOFY5JDXN/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SZ32AJIV4RHJMLWLU5QULGKMMIHYOMDC/
- https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/CPAN/scripts/cpan