CVE Catalog

CVE-1999-0034

High
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
1.18%

63th percentile - higher than 63% of all known CVEs

Summary

Buffer overflow in suidperl (sperl) in Perl versions 4.x and 5.x may lead to unauthorized system access.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain administrator privileges, posing a serious security risk to the system.

Recommendation

It is recommended to upgrade to the latest version of Perl to mitigate this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Buffer overflow in suidperl (sperl), Perl 4.x and 5.x.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS