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CVE-2004-20221 exploit

ActivePerl 5.8.x and others, and Larry Wall's Perl 5.6.1 and others, when running on Windows systems, allows attackers to cause a denial of…

Published 21 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
2.1
v2.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
1.7%
percentile 78%
Public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

ActivePerl 5.8.x and others, and Larry Wall's Perl 5.6.1 and others, when running on Windows systems, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long argument to the system command, which leads to a stack-based buffer overflow. NOTE: it is unclear whether this bug is in Perl or the OS API that is used by Perl.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.74% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

  • EDB-24128 ActivePerl 5.x / Cygwin 1.5.x - System Function Call Buffer Overflow · dos · 2004-05-18

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD2.02.1AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

  • exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com /vulnerabilities/16169 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF, x_transferred
  • perlmonks.org /index.pl?node_id=354145 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
  • marc.info /?l=full-disclosure&m=108489112131099&w=2 · mailing-list, x_refsource_FULLDISC, x_transferred
  • marc.info /?l=bugtraq&m=108489894009025&w=2 · mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, x_transferred
  • oliverkarow.de /research/ActivePerlSystemBOF.txt · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
  • marc.info /?l=full-disclosure&m=108483058514596&w=2 · mailing-list, x_refsource_FULLDISC, x_transferred
  • marc.info /?l=full-disclosure&m=108482796105922&w=2 · mailing-list, x_refsource_FULLDISC, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /bid/10375 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
  • archives.neohapsis.com /archives/fulldisclosure/2004-05/0905.html · mailing-list, x_refsource_FULLDISC, x_transferred

Sources

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