CVE-2008-7319: Net-Ping-External Project Net-Ping-External

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 6.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Net::Ping::External extension through 0.15 for Perl does not properly sanitize arguments (e.g., invalid hostnames) containing shell metacharacters before use of backticks in External.pm, allowing for shell command injection and arbitrary command execution if untrusted input is used.

Affected products

• Net-Ping-External Project Net-Ping-External: up to and including 0.15

Published 2017-11-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.