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CVE-2023-47038

A vulnerability was found in perl 5.30.0 through 5.38.0.

HIGH 7.8EPSS 0.81%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.81%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

A vulnerability was found in perl 5.30.0 through 5.38.0. This issue occurs when a crafted regular expression is compiled by perl, which can allow an attacker controlled byte buffer overflow in a heap allocated buffer.

CVSS 3.1
7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.81% probability · 55th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-122, CWE-787
Affected
perl/perl · fedoraproject/fedora · redhat/enterprise linux · redhat/enterprise linux aus · redhat/enterprise linux eus
Source
secalert@redhat.com

References

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