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Improper Validation of Specified Type of Input

CVE-2021-47156

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

The Net::IPAddress::Util module before 5.000 for Perl does not properly consider extraneous zero characters in an IP address string, which (in some situations) allows attackers to bypass access control that is based on IP addresses.

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  • NETWORK
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CWE-1287 - Improper Validation of Specified Type of Input

The product receives input that is expected to be of a certain type, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input is actually of the expected type.

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