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CVE-2023-31484

Published: 29 April 2023

CPAN.pm before 2.35 does not verify TLS certificates when downloading distributions over HTTPS.

Notes

AuthorNote
ccdm94
the fix released to cpanpm (commit 9c98370) can be applied to the perl
codebase to fix the issue. The perl upstream has fixed the issue through
commit 96ea0b9b, which is actually an import of CPAN v2.36.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.1

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
perl
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic
Released (5.26.1-6ubuntu0.7)
focal
Released (5.30.0-9ubuntu0.4)
jammy
Released (5.34.0-3ubuntu1.2)
kinetic
Released (5.34.0-5ubuntu1.2)
lunar
Released (5.36.0-7ubuntu0.23.04.1)
trusty
Released (5.18.2-2ubuntu1.7+esm5)
Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
upstream
Released (5.38.0)
xenial
Released (5.22.1-9ubuntu0.9+esm2)
Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/96ea0b9b6169d72ff9a79b49e89d58bbf4f61620

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 8.1
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H