CVE-2010-1168
The Safe (aka Safe.pm) module before 2.25 for Perl allows context-dependent attackers to bypass intended (1) Safe::reval and (2) Safe::rdo access restrictions, and inject and execute arbitrary code, via vectors involving implicitly called methods and implicitly blessed objects, as demonstrated by the (a) DESTROY and (b) AUTOLOAD methods, related to "automagic methods."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 3.7% (90th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-1198)
- Published
- June 21, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-1198 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- perl / perl
- rafael garcia-suarez / safe
- rafael garcia-suarez / safe
- rafael garcia-suarez / safe
- rafael garcia-suarez / safe
- rafael garcia-suarez / safe
- rafael garcia-suarez / safe
- rafael garcia-suarez / safe
- rafael garcia-suarez / safe
- rafael garcia-suarez / safe
- rafael garcia-suarez / safe
- rafael garcia-suarez / safe
- rafael garcia-suarez / safe
- rafael garcia-suarez / safe
- rafael garcia-suarez / safe
- rafael garcia-suarez / safe
References
- http://blogs.perl.org/users/rafael_garcia-suarez/2010/03/new-safepm-fixes-security-hole.html
- http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/cve_2010_1168_vulnerability_in
- http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/RGARCIA/Safe-2.27/Changes
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10735
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40049(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40052(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42402
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1024062(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:115
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:116
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/05/20/5
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0457.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0458.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3075
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=576508
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7424
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9807
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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