CVE-2025-40909
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
RHSA-2026:8096: perl:5.32 security update (Moderate)
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| arch | affected | | |
| rhel | 9 | fixed | |
| rocky | 8 | fixed | |
| sles | affected | | |
| rocky | 9 | fixed | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 5.36.0-7+deb12u3 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 5.32.1-4+deb11u5 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 5.40.1-5 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 5.40.1-5 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 5.40.1-5 |
| rhel | 8 | fixed | |
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11804
- https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2025:11805
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-40909.html
- https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2025:11804
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-40909
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11805
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2369407
- https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2025-11805.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:8096
- https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2026-8096.html
- https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2026:8096
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.