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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2016-2381

Perl might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism in a child process via duplicate environment variables in envp.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 9.08%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (9.08%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

Perl might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism in a child process via duplicate environment variables in envp.

CVSS 3.1
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS
9.08% probability · 95th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-20
Affected
perl/perl · debian/debian linux · oracle/communications billing and revenue management · oracle/configuration manager · oracle/database server · oracle/enterprise manager base platform · oracle/timesten in-memory database · oracle/solaris · opensuse/opensuse · canonical/ubuntu linux
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.