CPANSA-CPAN-2023-31484: CPAN vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2023-02-28T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date 2023-02-28T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score 8.1 Severity
Original language Language en
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Vulnerability Description

The verify_SSL flag is missing from HTTP::Tiny, and allows a network attacker to MITM the connection if it is used by the CPAN client

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-31484

Vulnerability Description

CPAN.pm before 2.35 does not verify TLS certificates when downloading distributions over HTTPS.

Weakness CWE-295 : Improper Certificate Validation

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
CPAN less than 2.35
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 8.1 High
Fixed

giterlizzi

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gdt@cpan.org

References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Tue Feb 28 00:00:00 2023 First release

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