VulnerabilityModified
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
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2228Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3128Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-47038Broken Link, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1056746Mailing List, Patch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2249523Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2228Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3128Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-47038Broken Link, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1056746Mailing List, Patch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2249523Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/12c313ce49b36160a7ca2e9b07ad5bd92ee4a010
- https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/7047915eef37fccd93e7cd985c29fe6be54650b6
- https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/ff1f9f59360afeebd6f75ca1502f5c3ebf077da3
- https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy/discussions/8400
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GNEEWAACXQCEEAKSG7XX2D5YDRWLCIZJ/Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UMDZZ4SCEW6FRWZDMXGAKZ35THTAWFG6/
- https://perldoc.perl.org/perl5382delta#CVE-2023-47038-Write-past-buffer-end-via-illegal-user-defined-Unicode-propertyVendor Advisory
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-47100
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-47100.html
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.