GHSA-hwpr-jc4f-7ww3CriticalCVSS 9.8

Net::DNS versions through 1.55 for Perl allow remote execution injection via EDNS EXTENDED ERROR....

Published
July 20, 2026
Last Modified
July 21, 2026

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📋 Description

Net::DNS versions through 1.55 for Perl allow remote execution injection via EDNS EXTENDED ERROR.

Net::DNS::RR::OPT::EXTENDED_ERROR::_decompose parses the EXTRA-TEXT field of an EDNS EXTENDED-ERROR option (RFC 8914) by tokenising the raw bytes and passing the result to Perl's eval. There is some escaping done for $ and @, but not for backticks. This can be exploited for command execution if $pkt->edns->option('EXTENDED-ERROR') is called in array context, for example with a payload of {0:"<command>"} in EXTRA-TEXT.

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