Bug#1081559: cpanminus: CVE-2024-45321

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: cpanminus
Version: 1.7047-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/miyagawa/cpanminus/issues/611
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for cpanminus.

Mainly filling the bug to track the upstream issue.

CVE-2024-45321[0]:
| The App::cpanminus package through 1.7047 for Perl downloads code
| via insecure HTTP, enabling code execution for network attackers.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-45321
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-45321
[1] https://github.com/miyagawa/cpanminus/issues/611

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore