CVE-2026-8450

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-8450
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-8450.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-8450
Downstream
Related
Published
2026-05-27T04:22:26.539Z
Modified
2026-06-24T09:14:21.634499477Z
Severity
  • 9.1 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
HTTP::Daemon versions before 6.17 for Perl allow OS command injection via send_file()
Details

HTTP::Daemon versions before 6.17 for Perl allow OS command injection via send_file().

send_file() opens its string argument with Perl's 2-arg open(). The 2-arg form interprets magic prefixes: '| cmd' and 'cmd |' open a pipe to a subprocess, '> path' and '>> path' open the path for write or append.

Untrusted input passed to send_file() can run OS commands at the daemon process UID. The read-pipe form ('cmd |') also leaks subprocess stdout into the HTTP response body. The write-mode forms can create or truncate files at attacker chosen paths.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "CPANSec",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-73",
        "CWE-78"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/8xxx/CVE-2026-8450.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/libwww-perl/http-daemon

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/libwww-perl/http-daemon
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
3fa2b03a1a46b50e0cf4704640f719424d529a03
Fixed
945d35141d94490f749640bd4390acd6a2193995
Database specific 
{
    "source": [
        "DESCRIPTION",
        "REFERENCES"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "6.17"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

6.*
6.00
6.01
v6.*
v6.02
v6.03
v6.04
v6.05
v6.06
v6.07
v6.08
v6.09
v6.10
v6.11
v6.12
v6.13
v6.14
v6.15

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-8450.json"