CVE-2008-7319 Information

Description

The Net::Ping::External extension through 0.15 for Perl does not properly sanitize arguments (e.g. invalid hostnames) containing shell metacharacters before use of backticks in External.pm allowing for shell command injection and arbitrary command execution if untrusted input is used.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://matthias.sdfeu.org/devel/net-ping-external-cmd-injection.patch http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/07/4 https://bugs.debian.org/881097 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=33230

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8