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CVE-2016-1238 json

(1) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptar, (2) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptardiff, (3) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptargrep, (4) cpan/CPAN/scripts/cpan, (5) cpan/D…

published 2016-08-02 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-2339

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.8%
EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 56%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

(1) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptar, (2) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptardiff, (3) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptargrep, (4) cpan/CPAN/scripts/cpan, (5) cpan/Digest-SHA/shasum, (6) cpan/Encode/bin/enc2xs, (7) cpan/Encode/bin/encguess, (8) cpan/Encode/bin/piconv, (9) cpan/Encode/bin/ucmlint, (10) cpan/Encode/bin/unidump, (11) cpan/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/bin/instmodsh, (12) cpan/IO-Compress/bin/zipdetails, (13) cpan/JSON-PP/bin/json_pp, (14) cpan/Test-Harness/bin/prove, (15) dist/ExtUtils-ParseXS/lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp, (16) dist/Module-CoreList/corelist, (17) ext/Pod-Html/bin/pod2html, (18) utils/c2ph.PL, (19) utils/h2ph.PL, (20) utils/h2xs.PL, (21) utils/libnetcfg.PL, (22) utils/perlbug.PL, (23) utils/perldoc.PL, (24) utils/perlivp.PL, and (25) utils/splain.PL in Perl 5.x before 5.22.3-RC2 and 5.24 before 5.24.1-RC2 do not properly remove . (period) characters from the end of the includes directory array, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse module under the current working directory.

Patch / fix

  • apache spamassassin 3.4.2
  • perl Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.22.2-3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-1238

  • libsys-syslog-perl Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 0.33-1+deb8u1build0.14.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1238

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • spamassassin SLE Module for Development Tools 15, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 3.4.2-7.4.1
  • spamassassin SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES 12 SP4, SLED 12 SP4 3.4.2-44.3.1
  • amavisd-new SLE Module for Basesystem 15 2.11.1-6.3.1
  • perl SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES 12 SP1, SLED 12 SP1 5.18.2-11.1
  • perl SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 5.10.0-64.80.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2019:2011-1SUSE-SU-2019:1961-1SUSE-SU-2019:0505-1SUSE-SU-2016:2263-1SUSE-SU-2016:2246-1

  • perl-IO-Compress openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.213.0-1.1
  • ikiwiki openSUSE Tumbleweed 3.20200202.3-2.7
  • perl-MIME-Charset openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.012.2-1.16
  • perl-Test-File openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.448-1.5
  • perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker openSUSE Tumbleweed 7.64-1.1
  • spamassassin openSUSE Leap 15.0 3.4.2-lp150.6.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:14657-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10860-1openSUSE-SU-2024:11162-1openSUSE-SU-2024:11163-1openSUSE-SU-2024:11706-1openSUSE-SU-2019:1831-1

  • perl Alpine 3.4, Alpine 3.3 5.22.3-r0
  • spamassassin Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +13 more 3.4.2-r0
  • spamassassin Alpine 3.8 3.4.3-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2016-1238

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-1238 updated cvss 6.7

perl: loading of modules from current directory

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 perl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perl, perl-CGI, perl-core, perl-CPAN, perl-libs, perl-parent, +39 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perl, perl-core, perl-CPAN, perl-libs, perl-tests, perl-macros, +11 more Red Hat Software Collections perl516-perl, rh-perl520-perl, rh-perl524-perl, perl516-perl-Env, perl516-perl-core, perl516-perl-CPAN, +79 more
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.78% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 56% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

References

Sources

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