VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-20230

CVSS score10 CRITICAL
EPSS probability0.64%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2026-04-21
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

Storable versions before 3.05 for Perl has a stack overflow. The retrieve_hook function stored the length of the class name into a signed integer but in read operations treated the length as unsigned. This allowed an attacker to craft data that could trigger the overflow.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-121: Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Primary references