CVE-2020-10878
8.6
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.11%
Description
Perl before 5.30.3 has an integer overflow related to mishandling of a "PL_regkind[OP(n)] == NOTHING" situation. A crafted regular expression could lead to malformed bytecode with a possibility of instruction injection.
How to fix CVE-2020-10878
To remediate CVE-2020-10878, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/perl—upgrade to 5.28.3-r0 or later
- Debian/perl—upgrade to 5.30.3-1 or later
Is CVE-2020-10878 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 5.28.3-r0
- from 0, < 5.30.3-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H |