CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-10043
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-07-07
- Last modified
- 2026-07-07
- Assigner
- 9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-145
Description
Module::Load versions before 0.22 for Perl allow arbitrary modules outside of @INC to be loaded.
Module names starting with "::" could be passed to the load function to specify arbitrary module paths.
Attackers able to influence module names passed to load could use that bug to execute arbitrary code.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-145 Improper Neutralization of Section Delimiters weakness
References
- https://blogs.perl.org/users/michael_g_schwern/2011/10/how-not-to-load-a-module-or-bad-interfaces-make-good-people-do-bad-things.html blogs.perl.org
- https://metacpan.org/release/BINGOS/Module-Load-0.22/changes metacpan.org
- https://metacpan.org/release/BINGOS/Module-Load-0.22/diff/BINGOS/Module-Load-0.20/lib/Module/Load.pm metacpan.org