CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-7319
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-11-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-77
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.
Affected configurations
• net-ping-external project net-ping-external (<= 0.15)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-77 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command weakness
References
- http://matthias.sdfeu.org/devel/net-ping-external-cmd-injection.patch Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/07/4 Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/881097 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=33230 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://matthias.sdfeu.org/devel/net-ping-external-cmd-injection.patch Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/07/4 Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/881097 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=33230 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory