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CVE-2004-2022
ActivePerl 5.8.x and others, and Larry Wall's Perl 5.6.1 and others, when running on Windows systems, allows attackers to cause a denial…
Low2.1EPSS 1.7%
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Description
ActivePerl 5.8.x and others, and Larry Wall's Perl 5.6.1 and others, when running on Windows systems, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long argument to the system command, which leads to a stack-based buffer overflow. NOTE: it is unclear whether this bug is in Perl or the OS API that is used by Perl.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low2.1 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.7% · top 22% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.1.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (9)
- perl-system-bo(16169) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=354145 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20040518 Re: Buffer Overflow in ActivePerl ? (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 20040518 RE: [Full-Disclosure] Re: Buffer Overflow in ActivePerl ? (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://www.oliverkarow.de/research/ActivePerlSystemBOF.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20040517 RE: Buffer Overflow in ActivePerl ? (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 20040517 Buffer Overflow in ActivePerl ? (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 10375 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20040518 Re[2]: [Full-Disclosure] Buffer Overflow in ActivePerl ? (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_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)
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