CVE record · CVE-2026-97230

IO::Socket::SSL::SelfCertificate versions 1.00 for Perl contains malware which executes Python code from an obfuscated URL

CVSS 9.8 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.0024 · 14th percentile

Critical, because:

CVSS score 9.8: 9.0 or more.

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: CPANSec) at 24 Sept 2026, 22:36 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
Vendor	Product	Versions
Not given	Not given Package name: IO-Socket-SSL-SelfCertificate https://cpan.org/modules pkg:cpan/IO-Socket-SSL-SelfCertificate	affected 1.00 custom Other versions: unaffected

Identifiers: CVE-2026-97230
CNA: CPANSec
Weakness (CWE): CWE-506
Tags: CWE-506
Published: 24 Sept 2026
Updated: 25 Sept 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
9.8	Critical	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	ADP (CISA-ADP)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0024, the 14th percentile, on 6 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 24 Sept 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers.discuss/2026/09/msg4756.html vendor-advisory
www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-95831 related

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.