CVE-2016-2381 describes a vulnerability in Perl that allows attackers to bypass its taint protection mechanism in child processes by manipulating duplicate environment variables. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) is network-exploitable with low attack complexity, potentially leading to high integrity impacts, though it does not affect confidentiality or availability. Despite its high FAUCET Risk Score, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 5.23.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:oracle:communications_billing_and_revenue_management:7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 12.1.2.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:oracle:configuration_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.