CVE-2008-7319

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

The Net::Ping::External extension through 0.15 for Perl does not properly sanitize arguments (e.g., invalid hostnames) containing shell metacharacters before use of backticks in External.pm, allowing for shell command injection and arbitrary command execution if untrusted input is used.

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CVSS 3.0 9.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-77

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Nov 7, 2017
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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