CVE-2020-10543
Perl before 5.30.3 on 32-bit platforms allows a heap-based buffer overflow because nested regular expression quantifiers have an integer overflow.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 11.3%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
Perl before 5.30.3 on 32-bit platforms allows a heap-based buffer overflow because nested regular expression quantifiers have an integer overflow.
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.2 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
- EPSS
- 11.33% probability · 96th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-190, CWE-787
- Affected
- perl/perl · fedoraproject/fedora · opensuse/leap · oracle/communications billing and revenue management · oracle/communications diameter signaling router · oracle/communications eagle application processor · oracle/communications eagle lnp application processor · oracle/communications lsms · oracle/communications offline mediation controller · oracle/communications performance intelligence center · oracle/communications pricing design center · oracle/configuration manager · oracle/enterprise manager base platform · oracle/sd-wan edge · oracle/tekelec platform distribution
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 11.3% since 3 November 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00044.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/Perl/perl5/blob/blead/pod/perl5303delta.podThird Party Advisory
- https://github.com/Perl/perl5/compare/v5.30.2...v5.30.3Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/perl/perl5/commit/897d1f7fd515b828e4b198d8b8bef76c6faf03edPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IN3TTBO5KSGWE5IRIKDJ5JSQRH7ANNXE/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-03Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200611-0001/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00044.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/Perl/perl5/blob/blead/pod/perl5303delta.podThird Party Advisory
- https://github.com/Perl/perl5/compare/v5.30.2...v5.30.3Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/perl/perl5/commit/897d1f7fd515b828e4b198d8b8bef76c6faf03edPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IN3TTBO5KSGWE5IRIKDJ5JSQRH7ANNXE/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-03Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200611-0001/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.