CVE-2012-6141: Stephen Adkins App::context

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The App::Context module 0.01 through 0.968 for Perl does not properly use the Storable::thaw function, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted request to (1) App::Session::Cookie or (2) App::Session::HTMLHidden, which is not properly handled when it is deserialized.

Affected products

• Stephen Adkins App::context: version 0.01 only; version 0.93 only; version 0.95 only; version 0.96 only; version 0.961 only; version 0.962 only; …

Published 2014-06-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.