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🛡️ CVE-2023-47038 — enterprise-linux

🟠 CVSS 7.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-122 NVD
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CVSS Score
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Description

A vulnerability was found in perl 5.30.0 through 5.38.0. This issue occurs when a crafted regular expression is compiled by perl, which can allow an attacker controlled byte buffer overflow in a heap allocated buffer.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-47038 is classified as CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow. A write past the end of a heap allocation corrupts allocator metadata or neighbouring objects.

Affected software

CVE-2023-47038 is recorded against 5 packages.

  • enterprise-linux
  • enterprise-linux-aus
  • enterprise-linux-eus
  • fedora
  • perl (from 5.30.0 up to 5.38.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 18 December 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

access.redhat.com
access.redhat.com
access.redhat.com
bugs.debian.org
bugzilla.redhat.com
access.redhat.com
access.redhat.com
access.redhat.com
bugs.debian.org
bugzilla.redhat.com
github.com
github.com
github.com
github.com
lists.fedoraproject.org
lists.fedoraproject.org
perldoc.perl.org
ubuntu.com
www.suse.com

Other advisories for this package

enterprise-linux has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow) in other software:

CVE-2023-47038 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-122
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-12-18
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
enterprise-linux — —
enterprise-linux-aus — —
enterprise-linux-eus — —
fedora — —
perl 5.30.0 5.38.0

References

Broken Link, Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-47038
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2249523
Broken Link, Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-47038
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2249523

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