CVE-2026-11527
Essential information
- Published
- 14/06/2026 14:16
- Modified
- 15/06/2026 21:16
- Author
- The MITRE Corporation
- Creator
- The MITRE Corporation
- CVSS
- 8.6 HIGH (v3.1)
- CISA KEV
- No
- CWE
- CWE-73 CWE-78
- EPSS (First)
- P50.1% EPSS percentile: rank of this vulnerability versus all others. Higher percentile = more likely to be exploited. Learn more (score 0.00755)
- CVSS vector
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CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H—
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- Attack vector
- LOCAL
- Attack complexity
- LOW
- Privileges required
- NONE
- User interaction
- REQUIRED
- Scope
- CHANGED
- Confidentiality impact
- HIGH
- Integrity impact
- HIGH
- Availability impact
- HIGH
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Description
Config::IniFiles versions before 3.001000 for Perl allow OS command injection and file overwrite via a 2-arg open() of the -file argument in _make_filehandle.
Config::IniFiles::_make_filehandle opens a filename argument with Perl's 2-arg open(), so a filename that begins or ends with a pipe ("| cmd", "cmd |") or begins with a redirect ("> path", ">> path") is run as a command or redirect rather than opened as a file. The helper is the open path behind the documented -file argument: new(-file => $thing) reaches it through ReadConfig. An in-memory scalar reference (-file => \$text) does not open a path and is unaffected.
Any caller that forwards untrusted input to the -file argument can run an arbitrary command or truncate a file under the process UID.
NVD status
- Status
- Deferred — CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.
- Source
- nist-nvd-api
- NVD
- View on NVD
Affected products (CPE)
| Product | CPE |
|---|---|
| perl / config | cpe:2.3:a:perl:config::inifiles:<3.001000:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |