Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-47038 - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in multiple products

CVSS 7.8 - HIGH

Attack vector

LOCAL

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

LOW

Confidentiality impact

HIGH

Integrity impact

HIGH

Availability impact

HIGH

local

low complexity

NVD

Published: 2023-12-18

Updated: 2025-03-27

Summary

A vulnerability was found in perl 5.30.0 through 5.38.0. This issue occurs when a crafted regular expression is compiled by perl, which can allow an attacker controlled byte buffer overflow in a heap allocated buffer.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Perl Perl Perl 5.30.0 Perl Perl 5.30.1 Perl Perl 5.30.2 Perl Perl 5.30.3 Perl Perl 5.31.0 Perl Perl 5.31.1 Perl Perl 5.31.2 Perl Perl 5.31.3 Perl Perl 5.31.4 Perl Perl 5.31.5 Perl Perl 5.31.6 Perl Perl 5.31.7 Perl Perl 5.31.8 Perl Perl 5.31.9 Perl Perl 5.31.10 Perl Perl 5.31.11 Perl Perl 5.32.0 Perl Perl 5.32.1 Perl Perl 5.33.0 Perl Perl 5.33.1 Perl Perl 5.33.2 Perl Perl 5.33.3 Perl Perl 5.33.4 Perl Perl 5.33.5 Perl Perl 5.33.6 Perl Perl 5.33.7 Perl Perl 5.33.8 Perl Perl 5.33.9 Perl Perl 5.34.0 Perl Perl 5.34.1 Perl Perl 5.35.0 Perl Perl 5.35.1 Perl Perl 5.35.2 Perl Perl 5.35.3 Perl Perl 5.35.4 Perl Perl 5.35.5 Perl Perl 5.35.6 Perl Perl 5.35.7 Perl Perl 5.35.8 Perl Perl 5.35.9 Perl Perl 5.35.10 Perl Perl 5.35.11 Perl Perl 5.36.0 Perl Perl 5.36.1 Perl Perl 5.37.0 Perl Perl 5.37.1 Perl Perl 5.37.2 Perl Perl 5.37.3 Perl Perl 5.37.4 Perl Perl 5.37.5 Perl Perl 5.37.6 Perl Perl 5.37.7 Perl Perl 5.37.8 Perl Perl 5.37.9 Perl Perl 5.37.10 Perl Perl 5.37.11 Perl Perl 5.38.0	84
OS	Fedoraproject Fedoraproject Fedora 39	1
OS	Redhat Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Redhat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Redhat Enterprise Linux EUS 9.4 Redhat Enterprise Linux AUS 9.4	4

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write

Summary

Vulnerable Configurations

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

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