RHSA-2026:93471HighCVSS 8.1

Red Hat Security Advisory: perl-YAML:1.24 security update

Published
November 2, 2026
Last Modified
November 3, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

CVE-2017-20285 →CVE-2019-25777 →

📋 Description

CVE-2017-20285 — perl-yaml: perl-yaml: Arbitrary destructor method execution via crafted YAML document CVE-2019-25777 — perl-yaml: perl-yaml: Arbitrary code execution via unrestricted package variable assignment

🎯 Affected products5

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • perl-YAML-0:1.24-4.module+el8.10.0+25073+42d87e53.noarch (perl-YAML:1.24) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • perl-YAML-0:1.24-4.module+el8.10.0+25073+42d87e53.src (perl-YAML:1.24) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • perl-YAML-0:1.24-4.module+el8.10.0+25073+d1062575.noarch (perl-YAML:1.24) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • perl-YAML-0:1.24-4.module+el8.10.0+25073+d1062575.src (perl-YAML:1.24) as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)

✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 Workaround: Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.

🔗 References (5)