CVE-2012-5377

mediumpriority · track · 34EPSS 0.013 · 70 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · functional

Likely / severe?

1.27% (70th) EPSS

CVSS 6 · medium

Is it mine?

2 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.06mediumAV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.5 · impact 10

v2.05.1mediumAV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-426USLLM-inferred

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-28130IKE and AuthIP IPsec Keyring Modules Service (IKEEXT) - Missing DLL (Metasploit)functional · exploit_db

affected products (2)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
activestate activeperl= 5.16.1.1601nvdUScpe:2.3:a:activestate:activeperl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2012-10-11modified 2026-06-16

references (6)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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