The App::cpanminus package through 1.7047 for Perl downloads code via insecure HTTP, enabling code execution for network attackers.
Indeed App-cpanminus-1.7047 uses HTTP. Relevant upstream bug reports: https://github.com/miyagawa/cpanminus/issues/603 https://github.com/miyagawa/cpanminus/issues/611 Relevant upstream pull requests: https://github.com/miyagawa/cpanminus/pull/674 https://github.com/miyagawa/cpanminus/pull/678
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Via RHSA-2024:10218 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10218
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Via RHSA-2024:10219 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10219