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high 7.5

CVE-2011-3597 in the critical feed json

Eval injection vulnerability in the Digest module before 1.17 for Perl allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary commands via…

published 2012-01-13 14 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2011-3556

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
13.1%
EPSS 13.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Eval injection vulnerability in the Digest module before 1.17 for Perl allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the new constructor.

Patch / fix

  • perl Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.12.4-6

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2011-3597

  • perl RHEL 4 3:5.8.5-57.el4
  • perl RHEL 5 4:5.8.8-32.el5_7.6
  • perl-suidperl RHEL 4 3:5.8.5-57.el4
  • perl-suidperl RHEL 5 4:5.8.8-32.el5_7.6
  • perl RHEL 6 4:5.10.1-119.el6_1.1
  • perl-CGI RHEL 6 3.51-119.el6_1.1
  • perl-core RHEL 6 5.10.1-119.el6_1.1
  • perl-CPAN RHEL 6 1.9402-119.el6_1.1

red hat advisories RHSA-2011:1797RHSA-2011:1424

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2011-3597 updated cvss 5.1

Perl Digest improper control of generation of code

  • Red Hat Directory Server 8 perl
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) perl 5.8.8-32.el5_7.6, perl-suidperl 5.8.8-32.el5_7.6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 perl 5.8.5-57.el4, perl-suidperl 5.8.5-57.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) perl 5.8.8-32.el5_7.6, perl-suidperl 5.8.8-32.el5_7.6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 perl 5.8.5-57.el4, perl-suidperl 5.8.5-57.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 perl 5.8.5-57.el4, perl-suidperl 5.8.5-57.el4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2011:1797
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) perl 5.10.1-119.el6_1.1, perl-CGI 3.51-119.el6_1.1, perl-core 5.10.1-119.el6_1.1, perl-CPAN 1.9402-119.el6_1.1, perl-libs 5.10.1-119.el6_1.1, perl-IO-Zlib 1.09-119.el6_1.1, +37 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2011:1424
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 perl 5.8.5-57.el4, perl-suidperl 5.8.5-57.el4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2011:1797

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Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-36199)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

13.05% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-36199 Perl 5.x - Digest Module 'Digest->new()' Code Injection remote, 2011-10-02

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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