Vulnerability in Activestate Activeperl
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 Preview.
EPSS: 0.013 (66.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Activestate Activeperl — versions 5.16.1.1601
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC)