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CVE-2020-16156

HIGH

7.8

Description

CPAN 2.28 allows Signature Verification Bypass.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score7.8

SeverityHIGH

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorLOCAL

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionREQUIRED

Published12/13/2021

Last Modified11/3/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

fedoraproject:fedoraperl:comprehensive_perl_archive_network

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-347

References

http://blogs.perl.org/users/neilb/2021/11/addressing-cpan-vulnerabilities-related-to-checksums.html(cve@mitre.org)

https://blog.hackeriet.no/cpan-signature-verification-vulnerabilities/(cve@mitre.org)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SD6RYOJII7HRJ6WVORFNVTYNOFY5JDXN/(cve@mitre.org)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SZ32AJIV4RHJMLWLU5QULGKMMIHYOMDC/(cve@mitre.org)

https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/CPAN/scripts/cpan(cve@mitre.org)

http://blogs.perl.org/users/neilb/2021/11/addressing-cpan-vulnerabilities-related-to-checksums.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://blog.hackeriet.no/cpan-signature-verification-vulnerabilities/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/10/msg00017.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SD6RYOJII7HRJ6WVORFNVTYNOFY5JDXN/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SZ32AJIV4RHJMLWLU5QULGKMMIHYOMDC/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/CPAN/scripts/cpan(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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