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CRITICAL CVSS 3.0
CVE-2018-18312
Apache Perl Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Description

Perl before 5.26.3 and 5.28.0 before 5.28.1 has a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression that triggers invalid write operations.

INFO

Published Date :

Dec. 5, 2018, 10:29 p.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 3:55 a.m.

Remotely Exploit :

Yes !

Source :

[email protected]
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2018-18312 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Netapp snapcenter
2 Netapp e-series_santricity_os_controller
3 Netapp snapdrive
4 Netapp snap_creator_framework
1 Canonical ubuntu_linux
1 Redhat enterprise_linux
1 Debian debian_linux
1 Perl perl
: Total Affected Vendor : 5 | Products : 8
CVSS Scores
The Common Vulnerability Scoring System is a standardized framework for assessing the severity of vulnerabilities in software and systems. We collect and displays CVSS scores from various sources for each CVE.
Score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Source
CVSS 2.0 HIGH [email protected]
CVSS 3.0 CRITICAL [email protected]
Solution
A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Perl that could allow for arbitrary code execution.
  • Upgrade the Perl packages to the latest version.
  • For Debian systems, upgrade to version 5.24.1-3+deb9u5 or later.
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2018-18312 has a 2 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2018-18312.

URL Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106179 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042181 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0001 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0010 Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1646734 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RWQGEB543QN7SSBRKYJM6PSOC3RLYGSM/
https://metacpan.org/changes/release/SHAY/perl-5.26.3 Third Party Advisory
https://metacpan.org/changes/release/SHAY/perl-5.28.1 Third Party Advisory
https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=133423 Exploit Patch Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-01
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190221-0003/ Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3834-1/ Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4347 Third Party Advisory
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106179 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042181 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0001 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0010 Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1646734 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RWQGEB543QN7SSBRKYJM6PSOC3RLYGSM/
https://metacpan.org/changes/release/SHAY/perl-5.26.3 Third Party Advisory
https://metacpan.org/changes/release/SHAY/perl-5.28.1 Third Party Advisory
https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=133423 Exploit Patch Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-01
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190221-0003/ Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3834-1/ Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4347 Third Party Advisory
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2018-18312 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2018-18312 weaknesses.

CAPEC-8: Buffer Overflow in an API Call Buffer Overflow in an API Call CAPEC-9: Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities CAPEC-10: Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables CAPEC-14: Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow CAPEC-24: Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow CAPEC-42: MIME Conversion MIME Conversion CAPEC-44: Overflow Binary Resource File Overflow Binary Resource File CAPEC-45: Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links CAPEC-46: Overflow Variables and Tags Overflow Variables and Tags CAPEC-47: Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion CAPEC-100: Overflow Buffers Overflow Buffers CAPEC-123: Buffer Manipulation Buffer Manipulation

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

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The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2018-18312 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

Results are limited to the first 20 news articles due to potential performance issues.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2018-18312 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106179
    Added Reference http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042181
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0001
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0010
    Added Reference https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1646734
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RWQGEB543QN7SSBRKYJM6PSOC3RLYGSM/
    Added Reference https://metacpan.org/changes/release/SHAY/perl-5.26.3
    Added Reference https://metacpan.org/changes/release/SHAY/perl-5.28.1
    Added Reference https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=133423
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-01
    Added Reference https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190221-0003/
    Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/3834-1/
    Added Reference https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4347
    Added Reference https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 07, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference MITRE https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RWQGEB543QN7SSBRKYJM6PSOC3RLYGSM/ [No types assigned]
    Removed Reference MITRE https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/RWQGEB543QN7SSBRKYJM6PSOC3RLYGSM/
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jul. 15, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Sep. 06, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-01 [No Types Assigned]
  • CPE Deprecation Remap by [email protected]

    Apr. 22, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* OR *cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Feb. 26, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0001 No Types Assigned https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0001 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0010 No Types Assigned https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0010 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190221-0003/ No Types Assigned https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190221-0003/ Third Party Advisory
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:netapp:e-series_santricity_os_controller:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 11.0 up to (including) 11.40 *cpe:2.3:a:netapp:snap_creator_framework:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:netapp:snapcenter:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:netapp:snapdrive:-:*:*:*:*:unix:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Feb. 22, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190221-0003/ [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jan. 03, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0010 [No Types Assigned]
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0001 [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Dec. 30, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
    Added CVSS V3 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Changed Reference Type http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106179 No Types Assigned http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106179 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
    Changed Reference Type https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1646734 No Types Assigned https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1646734 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://usn.ubuntu.com/3834-1/ No Types Assigned https://usn.ubuntu.com/3834-1/ Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://metacpan.org/changes/release/SHAY/perl-5.26.3 No Types Assigned https://metacpan.org/changes/release/SHAY/perl-5.26.3 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://metacpan.org/changes/release/SHAY/perl-5.28.1 No Types Assigned https://metacpan.org/changes/release/SHAY/perl-5.28.1 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4347 No Types Assigned https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4347 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/RWQGEB543QN7SSBRKYJM6PSOC3RLYGSM/ No Types Assigned https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/RWQGEB543QN7SSBRKYJM6PSOC3RLYGSM/ Product, Release Notes
    Changed Reference Type https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=133423 No Types Assigned https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=133423 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042181 No Types Assigned http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042181 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
    Added CWE CWE-119
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 5.26.3 *cpe:2.3:a:perl:perl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 5.28.0 up to (excluding) 5.28.1
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Dec. 13, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106179 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Dec. 07, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/3834-1/ [No Types Assigned]
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
Vulnerability Scoring Details
Base CVSS Score: 9.8
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality Impact
Integrity Impact
Availability Impact
Base CVSS Score: 7.5
Access Vector
Access Complexity
Authentication
Confidentiality Impact
Integrity Impact
Availability Impact
Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

9.34 }} 4.81%

score

0.92422

percentile