Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-8608

Title: Perl RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-8608.

CWE Category CWE-125

Published Date Feb 07, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 9.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

4.62%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-8608: The VDir::MapPathA and VDir::MapPathW functions in Perl 5.22 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1) drive letter or (2) pInName argument.

Impacted Vendors

perl 1

larry_wall 1

Reference Links

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2017-3236622.html https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/136649/Perl-5.22-VDir-MapPathA-W-Out-Of-Bounds-Reads-Buffer-Over-Reads.html https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=126755 https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2017-3236622.html https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/136649/Perl-5.22-VDir-MapPathA-W-Out-Of-Bounds-Reads-Buffer-Over-Reads.html https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=126755 https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity CRITICAL

9.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns