CVE-2002-1742: Paul Kulchenko Soap Lite

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

SOAP::Lite 0.50 through 0.52 allows remote attackers to load arbitrary Perl functions by suppling a non-existent function in a script using a SOAP::Lite module, which causes the AUTOLOAD subroutine to trigger.

Affected products

  • Paul Kulchenko Soap Lite: version 0.50 only; version 0.51 only; version 0.52 only

Published 2002-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.