CVE-2026-8450

A flaw was found in HTTP::Daemon, a Perl module used for creating HTTP servers. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by providing specially crafted input to the sendfile function, leading to OS command injection. This allows the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system wit...

AZL-93024 CVE-2026-8450 affecting package perl-HTTP-Daemon for versions less than 6.16-2

HTTP::Daemon versions before 6.17 for Perl allow OS command injection via sendfile. sendfile 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. Untruste...