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CVE-2011-3597

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CVE-2011-3597 describes an eval injection vulnerability in the Digest module for Perl, specifically affecting versions prior to 1.17. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary commands by manipulating the new constructor. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it poses a significant risk due to its low attack complexity and potential for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, indicating its exploitability. Despite this, there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.00CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gisle_aas:digest:1.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.01CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gisle_aas:digest:1.01:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.02CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gisle_aas:digest:1.02:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.03CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gisle_aas:digest:1.03:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gisle_aas:digest:1.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
13.53%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-36199 · Oct 2, 2011
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1353 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 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 (5)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: perl-3:5.8.5-57.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: perl-4:5.8.8-32.el5_7.6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: perl-4:5.10.1-119.el6_1.1
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Directory Server 8Fixed in: perl

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2011-3597Moderate

Perl Digest improper control of generation of code

Oct 2, 2011

References

aix.software.ibm.com / aix/efixes/security/perl_advisory2.asc
cpansearch.perl.org / src/GAAS/Digest-1.17/Changes
kb.juniper.net / InfoCenter/index
kb.juniper.net / InfoCenter/index
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Patch
secunia.com / advisories/46279
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/51457
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19446
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2011-1424.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2011-1797.html
securityfocus.com / bid/49911
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1643-1