ActivePerl 5.8.x and others, and Larry Wall's Perl 5.6.1 and others, when running on Windows systems, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long argument to the system command, which leads to a stack-based buffer overflow
Published May 10, 2005
2.1
LOWCVSS 2.0
EPSS 1.74%
Description
ActivePerl 5.8.x and others, and Larry Wall's Perl 5.6.1 and others, when running on Windows systems, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long argument to the system command, which leads to a stack-based buffer overflow. NOTE: it is unclear whether this bug is in Perl or the OS API that is used by Perl.
Affected products
No data.
- 5.6.1
- 5.6.1.630
- 5.6.2
- 5.6.3
- 5.7.1
- 5.7.2
- 5.7.3
- 5.8
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (10 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 1.74% (0.01738) | 76.87th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 1.67% (0.01673) | 73.72th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 1.93% (0.01927) | 81.73th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 0.87% (0.00867) | 60.66th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 2.43% (0.02430) | 84.05th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 0.20% (0.00198) | 58.66th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.20% (0.00198) | 55.88th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 6.82% (0.06818) | 92.16th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 6.82% (0.06818) | 91.42th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 6.82% (0.06818) | 79.55th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
No CWE recorded.
References (9)
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-05/0905.html mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108489894009025&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=108482796105922&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
- http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=108483058514596&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
- http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=108489112131099&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
- http://www.oliverkarow.de/research/ActivePerlSystemBOF.txt x_refsource_MISCExploit
- http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=354145 x_refsource_MISCExploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10375 vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDExploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16169 vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-05/0905.html | mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC | |
| http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108489894009025&w=2 | mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ | |
| http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=108482796105922&w=2 | mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC | |
| http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=108483058514596&w=2 | mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC | |
| http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=108489112131099&w=2 | mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC | |
| http://www.oliverkarow.de/research/ActivePerlSystemBOF.txt | x_refsource_MISCExploit | |
| http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=354145 | x_refsource_MISCExploit | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10375 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDExploit | |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16169 | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF |
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