CVE-2018-18314
9.8
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.0 · EPSS 6.1% (pctl 93)
In your normal cycle
Critical by CVSS (9.8), but no sign of active exploitation.
Description
Perl before 5.26.3 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 | 6.06% — more likely to be exploited than 93% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-119 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | none known |
| Published | 2018-12-07 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-17 |
Affected (8)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| canonical | ubuntu linux |
| debian | debian linux |
| netapp | e-series santricity os controller |
| netapp | snap creator framework |
| netapp | snapcenter |
| netapp | snapdrive |
| perl | perl |
| redhat | enterprise linux |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106145
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042181
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0001
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0010
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1646751
- https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/19a498a461d7c81ae3507c450953d1148efecf4f
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RWQGEB543QN7SSBRKYJM6PSOC3RLYGSM/
- https://metacpan.org/changes/release/SHAY/perl-5.26.3
- https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131649
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-01
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190221-0003/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3834-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4347
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106145
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042181
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0001
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0010
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1646751
- https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/19a498a461d7c81ae3507c450953d1148efecf4f
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