CVE-2008-7319

critical

Description

The Net::Ping::External extension through 0.15 for Perl does not properly sanitize arguments (e.g., invalid hostnames) containing shell metacharacters before use of backticks in External.pm, allowing for shell command injection and arbitrary command execution if untrusted input is used.

References

https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=33230

https://bugs.debian.org/881097

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/07/4

http://matthias.sdfeu.org/devel/net-ping-external-cmd-injection.patch

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-11-07

Updated: 2017-11-29

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

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

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

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

Severity: Critical