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CVE-2010-1168

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-1168 describes a vulnerability in the Safe (aka Safe.pm) module for Perl, versions prior to 2.25, allowing attackers to bypass security restrictions and execute arbitrary code. This is achieved by exploiting implicitly called methods like DESTROY and AUTOLOAD on implicitly blessed objects. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered high severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, potentially leading to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.08CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rafael_garcia-suarez:safe:2.08:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.09CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rafael_garcia-suarez:safe:2.09:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rafael_garcia-suarez:safe:2.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.13CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rafael_garcia-suarez:safe:2.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rafael_garcia-suarez:safe:2.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.72%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0372 is in the 80th 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 (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: perl-2:5.8.0-101.EL3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: perl-3:5.8.5-53.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: perl-4:5.8.8-32.el5_5.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-1168Moderate

Safe: Intended restriction bypass via object references

May 20, 2010

References

blogs.perl.org / users/rafael_garcia-suarez/2010/03/new-safepm-fixes-security-hole.html
blogs.sun.com / security/entry/cve_2010_1168_vulnerability_in
cpansearch.perl.org / src/RGARCIA/Safe-2.27/Changes
kb.juniper.net / InfoCenter/index
kb.juniper.net / InfoCenter/index
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/40049
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/40052
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/42402
securitytracker.com / id
Vendor Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7424
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9807
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mandriva.com / security/advisories
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2010/05/20/5
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2010-0457.html
Vendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2010-0458.html
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/3075