RHSA-2025:8432 — Security Advisory

An update for perl-CPAN is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The CPAN module is a tool to query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites.

Security Fix(es):

• perl-CPAN: Bypass of verification of signatures in CHECKSUMS files (CVE-2020-16156)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.