🛡️ UBUNTU-CVE-2021-36770
⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

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.

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2021-08-09
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2026-05-20
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
libencode-perl
perl 5.32.1-3ubuntu3

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