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CVE-2020-10878

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-10878 is an integer overflow vulnerability in Perl versions prior to 5.30.3, affecting products like Fedora, NetApp, OpenSUSE, and Oracle. This flaw allows a crafted regular expression to generate malformed bytecode, potentially leading to instruction injection. Rated as High severity (CVSS 8.6), it can be exploited remotely with low complexity and no user interaction, potentially impacting confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 5.30.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
31CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:netapp:oncommand_workflow_automation:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:netapp:snap_creator_framework:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.6HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
4.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.88%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0488 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

Media 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.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (11)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
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oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: perl-4:5.16.3-299.el7_9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Advanced Update SupportFixed in: perl-4:5.16.3-292.el7_4.2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Telco Extended Update SupportFixed in: perl-4:5.16.3-292.el7_4.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Update Services for SAP SolutionsFixed in: perl-4:5.16.3-292.el7_4.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Extended Update SupportFixed in: perl-4:5.16.3-294.el7_6.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Extended Update SupportFixed in: perl-4:5.16.3-294.el7_7.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: perl-4:5.26.3-419.el8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update SupportFixed in: perl-4:5.26.3-418.el8_2.1
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: perl:5.24/perl

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2020-10878Moderate

perl: corruption of intermediate language state of compiled regular expression due to integer overflow leads to DoS

Jun 2, 2020

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00044.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
github.com / Perl/perl5/blob/blead/pod/perl5303delta.pod
Third Party Advisory
github.com / perl/perl5/commit/0a320d753fe7fca03df259a4dfd8e641e51edaa8
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / perl/perl5/commit/3295b48defa0f8570114877b063fe546dd348b3c
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / Perl/perl5/compare/v5.30.2...v5.30.3
PatchThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IN3TTBO5KSGWE5IRIKDJ5JSQRH7ANNXE
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202006-03
Third Party Advisory
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20200611-0001
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpujan2021.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
oracle.com / /security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
PatchThird Party Advisory