CVE-2008-7319 is a critical shell command injection vulnerability affecting the Net::Ping::External Perl extension through version 0.15. It arises from improper sanitization of shell metacharacters in arguments passed to the External.pm module, allowing for arbitrary command execution when processing untrusted input. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with no user interaction, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion has been identified, its high severity warrants immediate patching for affected systems.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 0.15CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:net-ping-external_project:net-ping-external:*:*:*:*:*:perl:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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