7.5
CVSSv2

CVE-2015-8608

Published: 07/02/2017 Updated: 15/07/2020
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 9.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 668
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

The VDir::MapPathA and VDir::MapPathW functions in Perl 5.22 allow remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1) drive letter or (2) pInName argument.

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perl perl 5.22

Exploits

Perl version 522 suffers from two out-of-bounds reads and multiple small buffer over-read vulnerabilities in the VDir::MapPathA and VDir::MapPathW functions that could potentially be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution ...