CVE-2012-6141

HIGH 7.5CVE-2012-6141 · Published 04/06/2014 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2012-6141 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting app (stephen adkins).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.3%, higher than 83.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
app stephen_adkins	`= 0.01= 0.93= 0.95= 0.96= 0.961= 0.962= 0.963= 0.964= 0.965= 0.966= 0.9661= 0.967= 0.968`	No fix yet

Description

The App::Context module 0.01 through 0.968 for Perl does not properly use the Storable::thaw function, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted request to (1) App::Session::Cookie or (2) App::Session::HTMLHidden, which is not properly handled when it is deserialized.

References

seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q2/318
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/84198

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