CPANSA-Locale-Maketext-2012-6329: Locale-Maketext vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2013-01-04T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date 2013-01-04T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score Severity
Original language Language en
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Vulnerability Description

The _compile function in Maketext.pm in the Locale::Maketext implementation in Perl before 5.17.7 does not properly handle backslashes and fully qualified method names during compilation of bracket notation, which allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary commands via crafted input to an application that accepts translation strings from users, as demonstrated by the TWiki application before 5.1.3, and the Foswiki application 1.0.x through 1.0.10 and 1.1.x through 1.1.6.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2012-6329

Vulnerability Description

The _compile function in Maketext.pm in the Locale::Maketext implementation in Perl before 5.17.7 does not properly handle backslashes and fully qualified method names during compilation of bracket notation, which allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary commands via crafted input to an application that accepts translation strings from users, as demonstrated by the TWiki application before 5.1.3, and the Foswiki application 1.0.x through 1.0.10 and 1.1.x through 1.1.6.

Weakness CWE-94 : Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
Locale-Maketext less than 1.25
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
2.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P 7.5 High

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References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Fri Jan 4 00:00:00 2013 First release

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