CVE-2018-18314
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 5.2%
Description
Perl before 5.26.3 has a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression that triggers invalid write operations.
How to fix CVE-2018-18314
To remediate CVE-2018-18314, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/perl—upgrade to 5.26.3-r0 or later
- Debian/perl—upgrade to 5.28.0-3 or later
Is CVE-2018-18314 being exploited?
Moderate — EPSS is 5.2%. Track this CVE but it's not at the top of the prioritisation list.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 5.26.3-r0
- from 0, < 5.28.0-3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |