Vulnerability Report

CVE-2018-6913

Title: Perl RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2018-6913.

CWE Category CWE-787
Published Date Apr 17, 2018
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 9.8 CVSS v3.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
10.87%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2018-6913: Heap-based buffer overflow in the pack function in Perl before 5.26.2 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large item count.

Impacted Vendors

P
perl 1
L
larry_wall 1

Reference Links

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103953 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040681 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00009.html https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131844 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-01 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-2/ https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4172 https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103953 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040681 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00009.html https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131844 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-01 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-2/ https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4172 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

CVE-2018-6913 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.