CVE-2022-48522: Perl

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Perl 5.34.0, function S_find_uninit_var in sv.c has a stack-based crash that can lead to remote code execution or local privilege escalation.

Affected products

• Perl Perl: version 5.34.0 only

Published 2023-08-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.