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Vulnerability record · CVE-2004-2022 · published 31 December 2004

CVE-2004-2022: Activestate activeperl vulnerability

Activestate · Activeperl

ActivePerl 5.8.x and others, and Larry Wall's Perl 5.6.1 and others, when running on Windows systems, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long argument to the system command, which leads to a stack-based buffer overflow. NOTE: it is unclear whether this bug is in Perl or the OS API that is used by Perl.

2.1 CVSS 2.0 Low EPSS 1.7% · top 23.2%
2.1CVSS 2.0 base score
1.7%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
18References, 6 tagged exploit
16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

ActivePerl 5.8.x and others, and Larry Wall's Perl 5.6.1 and others, when running on Windows systems, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long argument to the system command, which leads to a stack-based buffer overflow. NOTE: it is unclear whether this bug is in Perl or the OS API that is used by Perl.

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-05/0905.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108489894009025&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=108482796105922&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=108483058514596&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=108489112131099&w=2
http://www.oliverkarow.de/research/ActivePerlSystemBOF.txt Exploit
http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=354145 Exploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10375 Exploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16169
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-05/0905.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108489894009025&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=108482796105922&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=108483058514596&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=108489112131099&w=2
http://www.oliverkarow.de/research/ActivePerlSystemBOF.txt Exploit
http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=354145 Exploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10375 Exploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16169

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Related vulnerabilities

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2004-2022), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.