CVE-2015-8607 (GCVE-0-2015-8607)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-01-13 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:20
VLAI
Summary
The canonpath function in the File::Spec module in PathTools before 3.62, as used in Perl, does not properly preserve the taint attribute of data, which might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism via a crafted string.
Severity
7.3 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-01-11 00:00
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