CVE-2018-18311
9.8
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.0 · EPSS 11.7% (pctl 96)
Patch early
EPSS 11.7% — above the 10% action threshold.
Description
Perl before 5.26.3 and 5.28.x before 5.28.1 has a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression that triggers invalid write operations.
Scoring
| CVSS | 9.8 (CRITICAL, v3.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 11.68% — more likely to be exploited than 96% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-190 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | none known |
| Published | 2018-12-07 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-17 |
Affected (18)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| apple | mac os x |
| canonical | ubuntu linux |
| debian | debian linux |
| fedoraproject | fedora |
| mcafee | web gateway |
| netapp | e-series santricity os controller |
| netapp | snap creator framework |
| netapp | snapcenter |
| netapp | snapdriver |
| perl | perl |
| redhat | enterprise linux |
| redhat | enterprise linux desktop |
| redhat | enterprise linux eus |
| redhat | enterprise linux server |
| redhat | enterprise linux server aus |
| redhat | enterprise linux server tus |
| redhat | enterprise linux workstation |
| redhat | openshift container platform |
References
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Mar/49
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106145
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042181
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0001
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0010
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0109
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1790
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1942
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2400
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1646730
- https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/34716e2a6ee2af96078d62b065b7785c001194be
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10278
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00039.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RWQGEB543QN7SSBRKYJM6PSOC3RLYGSM/
- https://metacpan.org/changes/release/SHAY/perl-5.26.3
- https://metacpan.org/changes/release/SHAY/perl-5.28.1
- https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=133204
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/42
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-01
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