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CVE-2014-10402 json

An issue was discovered in the DBI module through 1.643 for Perl.

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2014-1173

cvss
6.1
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 42%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in the DBI module through 1.643 for Perl. DBD::File drivers can open files from folders other than those specifically passed via the f_dir attribute in the data source name (DSN). NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-10401.

Patch / fix

  • libdbi-perl Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.643-3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-10402

  • libdbi-perl Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 1.640-1ubuntu0.3
  • libdbi-perl Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 1.643-1ubuntu0.1
  • libdbi-perl Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 1.634-1ubuntu0.2+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2014-10402

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • perl-DBI SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5 1.628-5.9.1
  • perl-DBI SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 1.639-3.14.1
  • perl-DBI SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP2 1.642-3.9.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:3136-1SUSE-SU-2020:3385-1SUSE-SU-2020:3384-1

  • perl-DBI openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.643-2.7
  • perl-DBI openSUSE Leap 15.2 1.642-lp152.2.9.1
  • perl-DBI openSUSE Leap 15.1 1.639-lp151.3.16.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11161-1openSUSE-SU-2020:2064-1openSUSE-SU-2020:2051-1

  • perl-dbi Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +7 more 1.643-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2014-10402

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • perl-DBI Azure Linux 3.0 1.632-1

azure linux advisories AZL-41925

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

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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-2014-10402 updated cvss 6.1

perl-dbi: Incomplete fix for CVE-2014-10401

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 perl-DBI Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perl-DBI Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perl-DBI
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perl-DBI Red Hat Software Collections rh-perl526-perl-DBI, rh-perl530-perl-DBI
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 42% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • rt.cpan.org https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99508#txn-1911590 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L
NVD 2.0 3.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

References

Sources

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