Privilege Escalation

2022-12-1511:46:30

Veracode Vulnerability Database

sca.analysiscenter.veracode.com

vulnerability

privilege escalation

hostname restriction

acl bypass

software vulnerability

EPSS

0.011

Percentile

84.6%

JSON

libnet-server-perl is vulnerable to privilege escalation. The vulnerability exists because the library does not check if the hostname resolves to the source IP address, allowing an attacker to bypass ACL restrictions via the hostname parameter when the reverse-lookups option is enabled.