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libgraphics-colornames-perl — security advisory
An issue was discovered in the Graphics::ColorNames package before 3.2.0 for Perl. There is an ambiguity between modules and filenames that can lead to HTML injection by an attacker who can create a file in the current working directory.
- Products
- libgraphics-colornames-perl
- Affected versions
- 2.11-6.1, 2.11-7, 2.11-7.1, 3.5.0-3, 3.5.0-3.1
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2024-55918
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 01:10 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in the Graphics::ColorNames package before 3.2.0 for Perl. There is an ambiguity between modules and filenames that can lead to HTML injection by an attacker who can create a file in the current working directory.
osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2024-55918
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Complete source record
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