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CVE-2020-16155

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-12-13 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The CPAN::Checksums package 2.12 for Perl does not uniquely define signed data.

Affected products

• Cpan::Checksums Project Cpan::Checksums: 2.12

References

• https://blog.hackeriet.no/cpan-signature-verification-vulnerabilities/
• https://metacpan.org/pod/CPAN::Checksums
• https://blog.hackeriet.no/cpan-signature-verification-vulnerabilities/
• https://metacpan.org/pod/CPAN::Checksums

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