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CVE-2009-3626
Perl 5.10.1 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a UTF-8 character with a large,…
Medium5.0EPSS 2.2%
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- Updated
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- redhat
Description
Perl 5.10.1 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a UTF-8 character with a large, invalid codepoint, which is not properly handled during a regular-expression match.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.2% · top 17% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (11)
- ADV-2009-3023 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20091023 CVE-2009-3626 assigment notification - Perl - perl-5.10.1 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 59283 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- perl-utf8-expressions-dos(53939) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Attachment/617489/295383/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6225 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=69973 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 37144 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/0abd0d78a73da1c4d13b1c700526b7e5d03b32d4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 36812 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1023077 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_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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