CVE-2018-6798
HIGH7.5EPSS 1.6%Published: 4/17/2018Modified: 12/3/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2018-6798DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6798
Description
An issue was discovered in Perl 5.22 through 5.26. Matching a crafted locale dependent regular expression can cause a heap-based buffer over-read and potentially information disclosure.
Affected packages (2)
- Alpine/perlfrom 0, < 5.26.2-r0
- Debian/perlfrom 0, < 5.26.1-6
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |