The App::cpanminus package 1.7044 for Perl allows Signature Verification Bypass.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - perl-App-cpanminus: Bypass of verification of signatures in CHECKSUMS files (CVE-2020-16154)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - perl-App-cpanminus: Bypass of verification of signatures in CHECKSUMS files (CVE-2020-16154)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5230-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that App::cpanminus did not properly verify CHECKSUMS files. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to bypass signature verification, gaining access to sensitive data or possibly executing     unauthorized code.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

According to the versions of the perl-App-cpanminus package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - The App::cpanminus package 1.7044 for Perl allows Signature Verification Bypass. (CVE-2020-16154)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote SUSE Linux SUSE15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2022:0074-1 advisory.

  - The App::cpanminus package 1.7044 for Perl allows Signature Verification Bypass. (CVE-2020-16154)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
199049	RHEL 8 : perl-app-cpanminus (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
199013	RHEL 9 : perl-app-cpanminus (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
196454	RHEL 7 : perl-app-cpanminus (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
183176	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM : App::cpanminus vulnerability (USN-5230-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
160169	EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : perl-App-cpanminus (EulerOS-SA-2022-1579)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
158650	openSUSE 15 Security Update : perl-App-cpanminus (openSUSE-SU-2022:0074-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high

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