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High severity · published Apr 8, 2016
CVE-2016-2381
Perl might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism in a child process via duplicate environment variables in envp
7.5
CVSS
9.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Perl might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism in a child process via duplicate environment variables in envp.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)9.1% · higher than 95% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CB
Communications Billing And Revenue Management · Oracle
7.5 · source: NVD
CM
Configuration Manager · Oracle
before 12.1.2.0.4; 12.1.2.0.6 · source: NVD
DS
Database Server · Oracle
11.2.0.4; 12.1.0.2; 12.2.0.1; 18c; 19c · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
7.0; 8.0 · source: NVD
EM
Enterprise Manager Base Platform · Oracle
13.2.0.0.0; 13.3.0.0.0 · source: NVD
OP
Opensuse · Opensuse
13.2 · source: NVD
PE
Perl · Perl
before 5.23.9 · source: NVD
SO
Solaris · Oracle
11.3 · source: NVD
TI
Timesten In-memory Database · Oracle
before 18.1.2.1.0 · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
12.04; 14.04; 15.10 · source: NVD
Affected product
UL
Ubuntu Linux
Canonical
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2381
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2381
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00112.html
Vendor Advisory
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/ae37b791a73a9e78dedb89fb2429d2628cf58076
Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3501
Third Party Advisory
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/perl/porters/326387
Third Party Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2017-3236622.html
Third Party Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html
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