Medium
Security advisory
The Net::CIDR::Lite module before 0.22 for Perl does not properly consider extraneous zero characters at the beginning of an IP address string, which (in some situations) allows attackers to bypass access control that is based on IP addresses.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-47154
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:04 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The Net::CIDR::Lite module before 0.22 for Perl does not properly consider extraneous zero characters at the beginning of an IP address string, which (in some situations) allows attackers to bypass access control that is based on IP addresses.
osv:CVE-2021-47154
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:55:11.621269108Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00023.html",
"https://metacpan.org/dist/Net-CIDR-Lite/changes",
"https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::CIDR::Lite",
"https://github.com/stigtsp/Net-CIDR-Lite/commit/23b6ff0590dc279521863a502e890ef19a5a76fc",
"https://blog.urth.org/2021/03/29/security-issues-in-perl-ip-address-distros/"
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"published_at": "2024-03-18T05:15:06.14+00:00"
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