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CVE-2022-48522

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-08-22 · updated 2026-10-14
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

In Perl 5.34.0, function S_find_uninit_var in sv.c has a stack-based crash that can lead to remote code execution or local privilege escalation.

Affected products

• perl: 5.34.0

References

• https://github.com/Perl/perl5/blob/79a7b254d85a10b65126ad99bf10e70480569d68/sv.c#L16336-L16345
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230915-0008/
• https://github.com/Perl/perl5/blob/79a7b254d85a10b65126ad99bf10e70480569d68/sv.c#L16336-L16345
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230915-0008/
• https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html

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