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CVE-2009-3626: perl

CVSS: 5.0v2.0MediumModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2009-3626
Published 29-10-2009Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2009-3626 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability in perl. EPSS estimates a 2.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
20/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.0/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
2.19%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 29-10-2009
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Perl 5.10.1 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a UTF-8 character with a large, invalid codepoint, which is not properly handled during a regular-expression match.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

2.19%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

82%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 2.19% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
2.19%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • perl< 5.10.1-6
Perl1 product

2 vendors · 2 products

References

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