suidperl (aka sperl) does not properly cleanse the escape sequence "~!" before calling /bin/mail to send an error report, which allows…

Description

suidperl (aka sperl) does not properly cleanse the escape sequence "~!" before calling /bin/mail to send an error report, which allows local users to gain privileges by setting the "interactive" environmental variable and calling suidperl with a filename that contains the escape sequence.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.1% · top 35% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (9)

• TLSA2000018-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_TURBOx_transferred
• 1547 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• RHSA-2000:048 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• CSSA-2000-026.0 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CALDERAx_transferred
• 20000808 MDKSA-2000:031 perl update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 20000814 Trustix Security Advisory - perl and mailx (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 20000805 sperl 5.00503 (and newer ;) exploit (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 20000810 Security Hole in perl, all versions (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• 20000810 Conectiva Linux security announcemente - PERL (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Record last updated 8 Aug 2024, 05:28 UTC.