CVE-2009-2946

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-09-04 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Eval injection vulnerability in scripts/uscan.pl before Rev 1984 in devscripts allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Perl code via crafted pathnames on distribution servers for upstream source code used in Debian GNU/Linux packages.

Affected products

Devscripts Devel Team Devscripts: all versions

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515209
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/devscripts/trunk/scripts/uscan.pl?op=diff&rev=1984&sc=1
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/devscripts/trunk/scripts/uscan.pl?op=log&rev=0&sc=1&isdir=0
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1878
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515209
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/devscripts/trunk/scripts/uscan.pl?op=diff&rev=1984&sc=1
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/devscripts/trunk/scripts/uscan.pl?op=log&rev=0&sc=1&isdir=0
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1878

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