CVE-2016-1238

highpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.008 · 56 %ileDEEURUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.78% (56th) EPSS

CVSS 7.2 · high

Is it mine?

211 products

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Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

(1) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptar, (2) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptardiff, (3) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptargrep, (4) cpan/CPAN/scripts/cpan, (5) cpan/Digest-SHA/shasum, (6) cpan/Encode/bin/enc2xs, (7) cpan/Encode/bin/encguess, (8) cpan/Encode/bin/piconv, (9) cpan/Encode/bin/ucmlint, (10) cpan/Encode/bin/unidump, (11) cpan/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/bin/instmodsh, (12) cpan/IO-Compress/bin/zipdetails, (13) cpan/JSON-PP/bin/json_pp, (14) cpan/Test-Harness/bin/prove, (15) dist/ExtUtils-ParseXS/lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp, (16) dist/Module-CoreList/corelist, (17) ext/Pod-Html/bin/pod2html, (18) utils/c2ph.PL, (19) utils/h2ph.PL, (20) utils/h2xs.PL, (21) utils/libnetcfg.PL, (22) utils/perlbug.PL, (23) utils/perldoc.PL, (24) utils/perlivp.PL, and (25) utils/splain.PL in Perl 5.x before 5.22.3-RC2 and 5.24 before 5.24.1-RC2 do not properly remove . (period) characters from the end of the includes directory array, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse module under the current working directory.

cvss

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

7.8

010

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

v2.07.2highAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 10

v3.17.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.8 · impact 5.9

v3.17.8highAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.17.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-264USprimaryCWE-264US

affected products (211)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Debian Linux Jessie (8.0)all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0
Debian Linux Wheezy (7.0)all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0
Open Source Perl <5.20.2-3all versionscert_bundDE
Open Source Perl <5.22.2-3all versionscert_bundDE
SUSE openSUSEall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:opensuse:-
Open Source Perl< 5.20.2-3cert_bundDE
Open Source Perl< 5.22.2-3cert_bundDE
n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
Fedora Project Fedora≤ 28fstec_bduRU
Novell Inc. OpenSUSE Leap≤ 15.0fstec_bduRU
АО «НППКТ» ОСОН ОСнова Оnyx≤ 2.5fstec_bduRU
Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения Debian GNU/Linux≤ 10fstec_bduRU
Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения Debian GNU/Linux≤ 8fstec_bduRU
Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения Debian GNU/Linux≤ 9fstec_bduRU
Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения Debian GNU/Linux≤ 11fstec_bduRU
Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения Debian GNU/Linux≤ 7fstec_bduRU
Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения Perl≤ 5.24.1-RC2fstec_bduRU
Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения Perl≤ 5.22.3-RC2fstec_bduRU
apache spamassassin< 3.4.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:spamassassin:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
debian debian linux= 8.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2025-0118Perl: Schwachstelle ermöglicht PrivilegieneskalationDeutsch2016-07-25csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in Perl ausnutzen, um seine Privilegien zu erhöhen.

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sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu cert_bund nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2016-08-02modified 2026-06-17

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