CVE-2020-16156

Summary

CVECVE-2020-16156
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-12-13 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:18:00 UTC
DescriptionCPAN 2.28 allows Signature Verification Bypass.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-347

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 35 All All All
Application Perl Comprehensive Perl Archive Network 2.28 - All All
Application Perl Comprehensive Perl Archive Network 2.28 trial All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Addressing CPAN vulnerabilities related to checksums | NeilB [blogs.perl.org] MISC blogs.perl.org
cpan - easily interact with CPAN from the command line - metacpan.org MISC metacpan.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: perl-CPAN-2.29-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: perl-CPAN-2.29-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
FEDORA-2022-21e8372c42 FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Signature Verification Vulnerabilities in CPAN.pm, cpanminus and CPAN::Checksums – Hackeriet MISC blog.hackeriet.no
[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: perl-CPAN-2.29-1.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 198998 Ubuntu Security Notification for Perl Vulnerability (USN-5689-1)
  • 199050 Ubuntu Security Notification for Perl Vulnerability (USN-5689-2)
  • 282225 Fedora Security Update for perl (FEDORA-2022-84fd87f7eb)
  • 282226 Fedora Security Update for perl (FEDORA-2022-21e8372c42)
  • 354298 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for perl-CPAN : ALAS2022-2022-161
  • 354311 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for perl-CPAN : ALAS2022-2022-072
  • 671423 EulerOS Security Update for perl-CPAN (EulerOS-SA-2022-1358)
  • 673100 EulerOS Security Update for perl (EulerOS-SA-2023-2163)
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