CVE-2008-7319

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-11-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-77

Description

The Net::Ping::External extension through 0.15 for Perl does not properly sanitize arguments (e.g., invalid hostnames) containing shell metacharacters before use of backticks in External.pm, allowing for shell command injection and arbitrary command execution if untrusted input is used.

Affected products

Net-Ping-External Project Net-Ping-External: through 0.15

References

http://matthias.sdfeu.org/devel/net-ping-external-cmd-injection.patch
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/07/4
https://bugs.debian.org/881097
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=33230
http://matthias.sdfeu.org/devel/net-ping-external-cmd-injection.patch
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/07/4
https://bugs.debian.org/881097
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=33230

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