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CVE-2007-5116

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 4.83%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2007-11-07 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2007-5116
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
4.83%

Original NVD Description

Buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode support in the Regular Expression Engine (regcomp.c) in Perl 5.8 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by switching from byte to Unicode (UTF) characters in a regular expression.