PT-2016-2790

CVE-2016-4748

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Published

2016-09-25

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Updated

2017-07-30

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CVSS 3.1
5.3
Medium
MetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apple OS X versions prior to 10.12
Description The issue is related to errors in security settings of the Perl component in Mac OS X, allowing a local attacker to bypass the Taint-mode protection mechanism using a specially crafted environment variable.
Recommendations For versions prior to 10.12, update to version 10.12 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of environment variables to minimize the risk of exploitation.
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