Critical CVSS 9.8
CVE-2026-3031
Image::EPEG versions through 0.15 for Perl embeds an unsupported version of the Epeg library. Image::EPEG includes Epeg 0.9.0 that was last updated in 2004. Epeg is a fast JPEG thumbnail library that was once part of the Englightenment Project.
What this means
- Exposure
- Exploitable remotely over the network, without authentication and with no action from the victim.
- Impact
- An attacker can read sensitive data, modify or destroy data and take the service offline.
- Likelihood
- Its EPSS score stays low: nothing points to imminent exploitation, which is no reason to leave it unpatched.
What to doPatch without waiting for the next scheduled cycle. Start with the instances exposed to the internet.
Read automatically from the CVSS vector, the weakness type (CWE) and the EPSS score. The technical description above remains the one published by NIST.