CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2008-7319

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.

10 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 10 / Impact : 10

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact COMPLETE

Integrity Impact COMPLETE

Availability Impact COMPLETE

Scope

9.8 /10

CVSS v3.0 : CRITICAL

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References
Link Resource
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=33230 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.debian.org/881097 Issue Tracking Patch
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/07/4 Issue Tracking Mailing List
http://matthias.sdfeu.org/devel/net-ping-external-cmd-injection.patch Issue Tracking Patch
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:net-ping-external_project:net-ping-external:*:*:*:*:*:perl:*:*
Information

Published : 2017-11-07 09:29

Updated : 2017-11-29 03:49

NVD link : CVE-2008-7319

Mitre link : CVE-2008-7319

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-77