CVE-2023-31486

HTTP::Tiny v0.082, a Perl core module since v5.13.9 and available standalone on CPAN, does not verify TLS certs by default. Users must opt-in with the verify_SSL=>1 flag to verify certs when using HTTPS. Resulting in a CWE-1188: Insecure Default Initialization of Resource weakness.

• https://blog.hackeriet.no/perl-http-tiny-insecure-tls-default-affects-cpan-modules/
• https://github.com/chansen/p5-http-tiny/issues/152
• https://github.com/chansen/p5-http-tiny/pull/151
• https://hackeriet.github.io/cpan-http-tiny-overview/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/111tadi/psa_httptiny_disabled_ssl_verification_by_default/
• https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/187480
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=962407
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=954089
• https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/interpreter/perl/-/commit/1490431e40e22052f75a0b3449f1f53cbd27ba92.patch
• https://github.com/chansen/p5-http-tiny/issues/134
• https://github.com/chansen/p5-http-tiny/issues/68

Fixed version: >=0.083

Reported: 2023-02-14

CVE-2016-1238

Loading modules from . (current directory).

• https://github.com/chansen/p5-http-tiny/commit/b239c95ea7a256cfee9b8848f1bd4d1df6e66444

Fixed version: >=0.059

Reported: 2016-07-29

Temporary file creating during mirror() not opened exclusively.

Fixed version: >=0.039

Reported: 2013-11-27