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CVE-2020-10543

HIGH severity · CVSS 8.2 · Integer overflow
8.2CVSS HIGH

Summary

Perl before 5.30.3 on 32-bit platforms allows a heap-based buffer overflow because nested regular expression quantifiers have an integer overflow.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactLow
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)11%

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: https://github.com/perl/perl5/commit/897d1f7fd515b828e4b198d8b8bef76c6faf03ed ↗