2021-36770 | Encode.pm ConfigLocal Privilege Escalation
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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Encode.pm up to 3.11. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:
Encode.pm, as distributed in Perl through 5.34.0, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse Encode::ConfigLocal library (in the current working directory) that preempts dynamic module loading. Exploitation requires an unusual configuration, and certain 2021 versions of Encode.pm (3.05 through 3.11). This issue occurs because the || operator evaluates @INC in a scalar context, and thus @INC has only an integer value.
The weakness was presented 08/12/2021. The advisory is shared for download at news.cpanel.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2021-36770 since 07/17/2021. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. The requirement for exploitation is a simple authentication. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available.
Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com.
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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.0
VulDB Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Temp Score: 6.0
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Patch: github.com
07/17/2021 CVE assigned
08/12/2021 Advisory disclosed
08/12/2021 VulDB entry created
08/16/2021 VulDB last updateAdvisory: news.cpanel.com
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2021-36770 (🔒)
Created: 08/12/2021 10:04
Updated: 08/16/2021 21:07
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