CVE-2021-36770 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Encode.pm in Perl versions up to 5.34.0, specifically impacting Fedora and p5_encode products. It allows an attacker to load a malicious Encode::ConfigLocal library from the current working directory due to an issue with how @INC is evaluated. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 (High) due to its potential for high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with low attack complexity requiring user interaction. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 3.05, < 3.12CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:p5-encode_project:p5-encode:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
34CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
33CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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