CVE-2009-3626
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 2.2%EU EUVD
Perl 5.10.1 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a UTF-8 character with a large, invalid codepoint, which is not properly handled during a regular-expression match.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- EPSS score
- 2.2% (82th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-3607)
- Published
- October 29, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-3607 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- perl / perl
References
- http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/0abd0d78a73da1c4d13b1c700526b7e5d03b32d4(Patch)
- http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=69973
- http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Attachment/617489/295383/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37144(Vendor Advisory)
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1023077
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/23/8
- http://www.osvdb.org/59283
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36812
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3023(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53939
- https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6225
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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