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CVE-2011-1487

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
11/04/2011
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

The (1) lc, (2) lcfirst, (3) uc, and (4) ucfirst functions in Perl 5.10.x, 5.11.x, and 5.12.x through 5.12.3, and 5.13.x through 5.13.11, do not apply the taint attribute to the return value upon processing tainted input, which might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism via a crafted string.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.10.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.10.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.10.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.10.1:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.10.1:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.13.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.13.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.13.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.13.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.13.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.13.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:5.13.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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