Posted by Robert Rothenberg on Sep 22 ======================================================================== CVE-2026-95831 CPAN Security Group ======================================================================== CVE ID: CVE-2026-95831 Distribution: Crypt-SelfCertificate Versions: from 1.01 through 1.05 MetaCPAN: https://metacpan.org/dist/Crypt-SelfCertificate...
CVE-2026-95831: Crypt::SelfCertificate versions from 1.01 through 1.05 for Perl contains malware which executes Python code from an obfuscated URL
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