Gisle Aas maintains a focused set of Perl libraries including libwww-perl and digest components that provide foundational HTTP and cryptographic functionality widely used in Perl-based applications and infrastructure. The observed vulnerability signal centers on input-validation issues, reflecting the parsing and protocol-handling responsibilities of HTTP client and digest-computation libraries. Current exploitation activity, severity distribution, and exposure counts are shown alongside this summary.
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Gisle Aas over time
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (4 CVEs).
4 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2011-3597HIGH Eval injection vulnerability in the Digest module before 1.17 for Perl allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the new constructor. | Jan 13, 2012 | 7.5 | 41 | NO | YES |
CVE-2002-0703HIGH An interaction between the Perl MD5 module (perl-Digest-MD5) and Perl could produce incorrect MD5 checksums for UTF-8 data, which could prevent a system from properly verifying the | Jul 26, 2002 | 7.5 | 24 | NO | NO |
CVE-2010-2253MEDIUM lwp-download in libwww-perl before 5.835 does not reject downloads to filenames that begin with a . (dot) character, which allows remote servers to create or overwrite files via (1 | Jul 6, 2010 | 6.8 | 22 | NO | NO |
CVE-2011-0633MEDIUM The Net::HTTPS module in libwww-perl (LWP) before 6.00, as used in WWW::Mechanize, LWP::UserAgent, and other products, when running in environments that do not set the If-SSL-Cert- | May 13, 2011 | 4.3 | 18 | NO | NO |
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (4 CVEs).
An overview of all social media posts that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Gisle Aas.
Media articles that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Gisle Aas — matched by CVE ID, not by vendor name.