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CVE-2005-0155

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CVE-2005-0155 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Perl 5.8.0, specifically when installed with setuid support (sperl), allowing local users to create arbitrary files through the PERLIO_DEBUG variable. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.6, indicating a low severity, with an attack vector requiring local access and low attack complexity, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While not actively exploited in the wild and not on the CISA KEV catalog, an exploit (EDB-792) exists for this issue, though it has garnered minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:larry_wall:perl:5.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.6MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.20%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
64.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-792 · Feb 7, 2005
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0120 is in the 92nd percentile among its peer group of 3,048 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: perl-2:5.8.0-89.10
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: perl-3:5.8.5-12.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-0155Moderate

security flaw

Feb 1, 2005

References

distro.conectiva.com.br / atualizacoes
fedoranews.org / updates/FEDORA--.shtml
marc.info
marc.info
secunia.com / advisories/14120
secunia.com / advisories/21646
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/19207
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10404
support.avaya.com / elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-163.htm
digitalmunition.com / DMA%5B2005-0131a%5D.txt
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-13.xml
PatchVendor Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-103.html
PatchVendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-105.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/12426
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory
trustix.org / errata/2005/0003
Patch