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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 9.8 Critical

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-11-07

Last modified

2024-09-17

Weaknesses

CWE-77

Affected products

• Net-ping-external (Net-ping-external Project)

References

• 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