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CVE-2011-3597

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Description

Eval injection vulnerability in the Digest module before 1.17 for Perl allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the new constructor.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19446

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743010

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1643-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49911

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1797.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1424.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:009

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:008

http://secunia.com/advisories/51457

http://secunia.com/advisories/46279

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10735

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705

http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/GAAS/Digest-1.17/Changes

http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/perl_advisory2.asc

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-01-13

Updated: 2025-04-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.14941

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