CVE-2002-0703: Gisle Aas Digest-MD5

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An interaction between the Perl MD5 module (perl-Digest-MD5) and Perl could produce incorrect MD5 checksums for UTF-8 data, which could prevent a system from properly verifying the integrity of the data.

Affected products

• Gisle Aas Digest-MD5: version 2.16 only; version 2.17 only; version 2.18 only; version 2.19 only

Published 2002-07-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.