VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-18311

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability11.68%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-12-07
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

Perl before 5.26.3 and 5.28.x before 5.28.1 has a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression that triggers invalid write operations.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-190: Integer Overflow or Wraparound
  • CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

Primary references