CVE record · CVE-2017-20285

YAML versions before 1.30 for Perl allow a loaded document to trigger the DESTROY method of arbitrary classes

CVSS 9.1 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.0034 · 27th percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 9.1: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: CPANSec) at 5 Oct 2026, 06:49 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Not given Not given Package name: YAML https://cpan.org/modules pkg:cpan/YAML
  • affected before 1.30 custom
Other versions: unaffected
Identifiers
CVE-2017-20285
CNA
CPANSec
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-470 · CWE-502
Published
5 Oct 2026
Updated
6 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
9.1 Critical 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N ADP (CISA-ADP)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0034, the 27th percentile, on 7 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 5 Oct 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.