This page lists publicly disclosed CVE vulnerabilities affecting activestate activeperl (linked via NVD CPE). Each row includes severity scores, summaries, and publication dates to help identify and analyze security issues.
| CVE | Summary | Source | Max CVSS | EPSS % | Published | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2012-5377 | Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installation functionality in ActivePerl 5.16.1.1601, when installed in the top-level C:\ directory, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the C:\Perl\Site\bin directory, which is added to the PATH system environment variable, as demonstrated by a Trojan horse wlbsctrl.dll file used by the "IKE and AuthIP IPsec Keying Modules" system service in Windows Vista SP1, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows 7 SP1, and Windows 8 Release Pre | [email protected] | 6.0 | 0.40% | 2012-10-11 | 2026-04-29 |
| CVE-2006-2856 | ActiveState ActivePerl 5.8.8.817 for Windows configures the site/lib directory with "Users" group permissions for changing files, which allows local users to gain privileges by creating a malicious sitecustomize.pl file in that directory. NOTE: The provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information. | [email protected] | 4.6 | 0.06% | 2006-06-06 | 2026-04-16 |
| CVE-2004-2286 | Integer overflow in the duplication operator in ActivePerl allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large multiplier, which may trigger a buffer overflow. | [email protected] | 7.5 | 22.78% | 2004-12-31 | 2026-04-16 |
| CVE-2004-2022 | ActivePerl 5.8.x and others, and Larry Wall's Perl 5.6.1 and others, when running on Windows systems, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long argument to the system command, which leads to a stack-based buffer overflow. NOTE: it is unclear whether this bug is in Perl or the OS API that is used by Perl. | [email protected] | 2.1 | 1.47% | 2004-12-31 | 2026-04-16 |
| CVE-2004-0377 | Buffer overflow in the win32_stat function for (1) ActiveState's ActivePerl and (2) Larry Wall's Perl before 5.8.3 allows local or remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via filenames that end in a backslash character. | [email protected] | 10.0 | 14.67% | 2004-05-04 | 2026-04-16 |
| CVE-2001-0815 | Buffer overflow in PerlIS.dll in Activestate ActivePerl 5.6.1.629 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an HTTP request for a long filename that ends in a .pl extension. | [email protected] | 7.5 | 35.93% | 2001-12-06 | 2026-04-16 |