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Security Risk Profile

55
/100
medium

Security Risk Score

Comprehensive risk assessment based on 206 vulnerabilities, EPSS scores, exploitation status, and remediation availability.

📅 Data spans from December 31, 1999 to present

206
Total CVEs
84
Critical+High
1
Exploited
36
Unpatched

Threat Assessment

Avg CVSS
6.6
Base severity
Avg EPSS
0%
Exploit probability
Unpatched
36
Critical/High
Risk Level
55/100
medium
⚠️ 1 Active Exploits🆕 5Fresh (<7d)📈 10 in Last 30 Days

Severity Distribution

Critical
27
High
57
Medium
51
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 Perl863
2. Dan Kogai Encode Module118
3. Mark Stosberg Data\72
4. Perl pcre52
5. Canonical Ubuntu Linux50

Recent Vulnerabilities

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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🔧 No Patch
CVE-2026-77781
CVSS 7.5high

Tie::Hash::Regex versions before 2.0.0 for Perl will throw an exception on unparseable lookup keys

Aug 21, 2026🔧 No Patch
CVE-2026-13048
CVSS 8.2high

Data::MuForm::Localizer versions through 0.05 for Perl execute Perl from a message catalog header, reached at an arbitrary path because load_lexicon interpolates the language attribute into the catalog filename

Aug 13, 2026🔧 No Patch
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q3/480
unknown

CVE-2026-19487: Perl versions from 5.9.4 befo5.41.9 produce incorct gular expssion match sults when a stale failuflag ends the Aho-Corasick pscan early in S_find_byclass

Aug 13, 2026🔧 No Patch
CVE-2026-19487
CVSS 5.3medium

Perl versions from 5.9.4 before 5.41.9 produce incorrect regular expression match results when a stale failure flag ends the Aho-Corasick prescan early in S_find_byclass

Aug 13, 2026
REDHAT-BUG-2513963
CVSS 7.0high
Aug 11, 2026🔧 No Patch

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