7.5 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.034 Low
EPSS
Percentile
91.5%
Buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode support in the Regular Expression
Engine (regcomp.c) in Perl 5.8 allows context-dependent attackers to
execute arbitrary code by switching from byte to Unicode (UTF) characters
in a regular expression.