CVE-2018-18312
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8EPSS 12.8%EU EUVD
Perl before 5.26.3 and 5.28.0 before 5.28.1 has a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression that triggers invalid write operations.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.8 (v3.0)
- Severity
- CRITICAL
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 12.8% (96th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2018-10045)
- Published
- December 5, 2018
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2018-10045 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 5, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- debian / debian linux
- netapp / e-series santricity os controller
- netapp / snap creator framework
- netapp / snapcenter
- netapp / snapdrive
- perl / perl
- redhat / enterprise linux
- redhat / enterprise linux
- redhat / enterprise linux
- redhat / enterprise linux
- redhat / enterprise linux
Certified products that may be affected
8 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified products, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 NSS Cryptographic Module - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 4498 - historical
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Kernel Crypto API Cryptographic Module - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 3939 - historical
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 OpenSSH Server Cryptographic Module - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 3891 - historical
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 OpenSSH Client Cryptographic Module - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 3892 - historical
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 OpenSSL Cryptographic Module - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 3867 - historical
See all 8 in the Security Certifications Explorer.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106179(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042181(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0001(Third Party Advisory)
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0010(Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1646734(Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RWQGEB543QN7SSBRKYJM6PSOC3RLYGSM/
- https://metacpan.org/changes/release/SHAY/perl-5.26.3(Third Party Advisory)
- https://metacpan.org/changes/release/SHAY/perl-5.28.1(Third Party Advisory)
- https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=133423(Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-01
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190221-0003/(Third Party Advisory)
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3834-1/(Third Party Advisory)
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4347(Third Party Advisory)
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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