CVE-2016-1238
(1) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptar, (2) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptardiff, (3) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptargrep, (4) cpan/CPAN/scripts/cpan, (5)…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 0.78%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 44% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
(1) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptar, (2) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptardiff, (3) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptargrep, (4) cpan/CPAN/scripts/cpan, (5) cpan/Digest-SHA/shasum, (6) cpan/Encode/bin/enc2xs, (7) cpan/Encode/bin/encguess, (8) cpan/Encode/bin/piconv, (9) cpan/Encode/bin/ucmlint, (10) cpan/Encode/bin/unidump, (11) cpan/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/bin/instmodsh, (12) cpan/IO-Compress/bin/zipdetails, (13) cpan/JSON-PP/bin/json_pp, (14) cpan/Test-Harness/bin/prove, (15) dist/ExtUtils-ParseXS/lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp, (16) dist/Module-CoreList/corelist, (17) ext/Pod-Html/bin/pod2html, (18) utils/c2ph.PL, (19) utils/h2ph.PL, (20) utils/h2xs.PL, (21) utils/libnetcfg.PL, (22) utils/perlbug.PL, (23) utils/perldoc.PL, (24) utils/perlivp.PL, and (25) utils/splain.PL in Perl 5.x before 5.22.3-RC2 and 5.24 before 5.24.1-RC2 do not properly remove . (period) characters from the end of the includes directory array, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse module under the current working directory.
Timeline
ID reserved
By debian
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.78% · top 44% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
15
- GLSA-201701-75 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- GLSA-201812-07 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/cee96d52c39b1e7b36e1c62d38bcd8d86e9a41ab (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1036440 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- DSA-3628 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- [announce] 20180916 [SECURITY] Apache SpamAssassin 3.4.2 resolves CVE-2017-15705, CVE-2016-1238, CVE-2018-11780 & CVE-2018-11781 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-6ec2009080 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- [perl.perl5.porters] 20160725 CVE-2016-1238: Important unsafe module load path flaw (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-e9e5c081d4 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-dd20a4631a (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 92136 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20181113 [SECURITY] [DLA 1578-1] spamassassin security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=127834 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1831 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2016-2339 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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