CVE-2016-6185 (GCVE-0-2016-6185)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-08-02 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:22
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The XSLoader::load method in XSLoader in Perl does not properly locate .so files when called in a string eval, which might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse library under the current working directory.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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14 references
Date Public
2016-07-07 00:00
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
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Nomenclature
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- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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