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Security Risk Profile

56
/100
medium

Security Risk Score

Comprehensive risk assessment based on 213 vulnerabilities, EPSS scores, exploitation status, and remediation availability.

📅 Data spans from December 31, 1999 to present

213
Total CVEs
89
Critical+High
1
Exploited
37
Unpatched

Threat Assessment

Avg CVSS
6.7
Base severity
Avg EPSS
0%
Exploit probability
Unpatched
37
Critical/High
Risk Level
56/100
medium
⚠️ 1 Active Exploits🆕 5Fresh (<7d)📈 10 in Last 30 Days

Severity Distribution

Critical
30
High
59
Medium
52
Low
11

Exploit Likelihood

>50% chance
0
20-50%
0
5-20%
0
<5%
4

Age Distribution

Common Weaknesses (CWE)

1
Buffer Overflow
38
2
Integer Overflow
10
3
Input Validation
9
4
Race Condition
6
5
Weak RNG
5

Most Affected Products

1. Perl Perl864
2. Dan Kogai Encode Module118
3. Mark Stosberg Data\72
4. Perl pcre52
5. Canonical Ubuntu Linux50

Recent Vulnerabilities

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CVE-2019-25777
CVSS 7.3high

YAML versions before 1.27_001 for Perl allow a loaded perl/glob document to replace any package variable, which can lead to arbitrary code execution

Oct 5, 2026
CVE-2017-20285
CVSS 9.1critical

YAML versions before 1.30 for Perl allow a loaded document to trigger the DESTROY method of arbitrary classes

Oct 5, 2026
CVE-2026-93012
CVSS 9.8critical

Email::Sender::Transport::Sendmail versions before 2.602 for Perl allow arbitrary command execution on Windows sending a message whose envelope address reaches the shell in _sendmail_pipe

Sep 21, 2026🔧 No Patch
CVE-2026-82560
CVSS 7.5high

Pod::Text versions before 6.1.1 for Perl allow CPU and memory exhaustion formatting a POD document whose =over nesting drives the margin to the output width

Sep 19, 2026
CVE-2026-78030
CVSS 9.8critical

DBI versions before 1.653 for Perl load arbitrary modules via unvalidated dbm_type and dbm_mldbm attributes in DBD::DBM

Sep 19, 2026
CVE-2026-85484
CVSS 6.1medium

HTML::FormHandler versions before 0.410002 for Perl render option group labels and radio button labels into HTML without escaping

Sep 8, 2026🔧 No Patch
CVE-2026-16028
CVSS 7.5high

Protocol::HTTP2 versions before 1.14 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via closed streams that stream_state never removes from the connection stream table

Sep 7, 2026🔧 No Patch
CVE-2026-86287
CVSS 7.5high

Net::IP::LPM versions before 1.12 for Perl accept malformed prefix lengths

Sep 7, 2026🔧 No Patch
CVE-2026-86304
CVSS 9.8critical

MojoX::Authentication versions before 0.006 for Perl allow SAML authentication bypass because parse_assertion builds Net::SAML2::Binding::POST without a trust anchor

Sep 6, 2026🔧 No Patch
CVE-2026-19953
CVSS 6.5medium

URI versions before 5.36 for Perl encode non-NFC host names to non-standard punycode labels via missing normalization in nameprep

Aug 31, 2026

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