CVE-2018-6798

mediumpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.039 · 90 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

3.93% (90th) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

34 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-22

An issue was discovered in Perl 5.22 through 5.26. Matching a crafted locale dependent regular expression can cause a heap-based buffer over-read and potentially information disclosure.

cvss

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

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v3.07.5highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.06.9mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-125USprimary

affected products (34)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Amazon Linux 2all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:amazon:linux_2:-
Dell PowerProtect Data Domainall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:dell:powerprotect_data_domain:-
Dell PowerProtect Data Domain <7.10.1.50all versionscert_bundDE
Dell PowerProtect Data Domain <7.10.1.70all versionscert_bundDE
Dell PowerProtect Data Domain <7.13.1.20all versionscert_bundDE
Dell PowerProtect Data Domain <7.13.1.40all versionscert_bundDE
Dell PowerProtect Data Domain <8.3.0.0all versionscert_bundDE
Dell PowerProtect Data Domain <8.3.1.10all versionscert_bundDE
Dell PowerProtect Data Domain <8.4.0.0all versionscert_bundDE
Dell PowerProtect Data Domain Management Centerall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:dell:powerprotect_data_domain_management_center:-
Dell PowerProtect Data Domain OSall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:dell:powerprotect_data_domain_os:-
Ubuntu Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:-
Dell PowerProtect Data Domain< 7.10.1.50cert_bundDE
Dell PowerProtect Data Domain< 7.10.1.70cert_bundDE
Dell PowerProtect Data Domain< 7.13.1.20cert_bundDE
Dell PowerProtect Data Domain< 7.13.1.40cert_bundDE
Dell PowerProtect Data Domain< 8.3.0.0cert_bundDE
Dell PowerProtect Data Domain< 8.3.1.10cert_bundDE
Dell PowerProtect Data Domain< 8.4.0.0cert_bundDE
n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU

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advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2024-1102Perl: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2018-04-15csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein lokaler Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Perl ausnutzen um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen.
WID-SEC-W-2025-0225Dell PowerProtect Data Domain: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2025-01-30csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Dell PowerProtect Data Domain ausnutzen, um erhöhte Rechte zu erlangen, einen Denial-of-Service-Zustand herbeizuführen und einen nicht näher spezifizierten Angriff durchzuführen.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2018-04-17modified 2026-06-17

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references (23)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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