CPANSA-PathTools-2016-01: PathTools vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2016-01-11T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date 2016-01-11T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score 7.3 Severity
Original language Language en
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Vulnerability Description

Does not properly preserve the taint attribute of data, which might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism via a crafted string.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-8607

Vulnerability Description

The canonpath function in the File::Spec module in PathTools before 3.62, as used in Perl, does not properly preserve the taint attribute of data, which might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism via a crafted string.

Weakness CWE-20 : Improper Input Validation

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
PathTools less than 3.62
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
3.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L 7.3 High
2.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P 7.5 High
Fixed

giterlizzi

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gdt@cpan.org

References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Mon Jan 11 00:00:00 2016 First release

Sharing rules

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