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🛡️ CVE-2024-45321 on Ubuntu — cpanminus

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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Description

The App::cpanminus package through 1.7047 for Perl downloads code via insecure HTTP, enabling code execution for network attackers.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2024-45321 as tracked by Ubuntu, for the package cpanminus. No fixed version has been recorded for this distribution yet.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no 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:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • 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

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-45321 is classified as CWE-494: Download of Code Without Integrity Check. Code or updates are fetched and executed without verifying they are authentic and unmodified.

Affected software

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-45321 is recorded against 1 package.

  • cpanminus

Timeline and source

Published on 27 August 2024 and last revised on 20 May 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

ubuntu.com (Report)
www.cve.org (Report)
security.metacpan.org (Report)
github.com (Report)
github.com (Report)

Other advisories for this package

cpanminus 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-494: Download of Code Without Integrity Check) in other software:

CVE-2024-45321 on other distributions

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

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-08-27
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-05-20
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
cpanminus — —

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