CVE-2012-6142

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-06-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Session::Cookie in the HTML::EP module 0.2011 for Perl does not properly use the Storable::thaw function, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted request, which is not properly handled when it is deserialized.

Affected products

Jochen Wiedmann Html::Ep: 0.2011

References

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q2/318
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59833
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/84199
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q2/318
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59833
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/84199

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