Vulnerability CVE-2021-47154
Published: 2024-03-18

Description:
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.

 References:
https://blog.urth.org/2021/03/29/security-issues-in-perl-ip-address-distros/
https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::CIDR::Lite
https://github.com/stigtsp/Net-CIDR-Lite/commit/23b6ff0590dc279521863a502e890ef19a5a76fc
https://metacpan.org/dist/Net-CIDR-Lite/changes
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