CVE Catalog

CVE-2020-16156

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Vulnerability in CPAN 2.28 allows signature verification bypass. An attacker can supply unauthorized code that is treated as properly signed.

Risk Assessment

The organization is at risk of installing malicious Perl packages, potentially leading to system integrity compromise and data theft.

Recommendation

Immediately update CPAN to a version later than 2.28 that includes a fix for this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

CPAN 2.28 allows Signature Verification Bypass.

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