All Platforms : Users' Perl scripts failing on limited Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems (IM-11912)

Qualys Cloud Platform Operations has found and fixed a problem that caused users' Perl scripts to fail after running Vulnerability Management (VM) scans with the VULNSIGS-VM-2.6.245.2-2 manifest version on specific Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems using Qualys Cloud Agents. Qualys Cloud Agent is fully functional and has no impact on its workflow. It was found that if CPAN is not configured correctly or "cpan -l" invoked for the first time, it can create subdirectories such as /usr/local/share/perl5, /usr/local/lib/perl5, and /usr/local/lib64/perl5, which are standard directories used by CPAN. This problem primarily affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems but did not occur on all RHEL machines; the reason for this inconsistency is currently under investigation by Qualys in collaboration with CPAN. The directories were created with root ownership, preventing the successful execution of Perl scripts run with non-root privileges. The Qualys research team has removed the problematic command and released a new manifest version VULNSIGS-VM-2.6.245.3-3. To determine if you were affected: 1. Check for the existence of these directories: [ -d /usr/local/lib64/perl5 ] && ls -ld /usr/local/lib64/perl5 [ -d /usr/local/share/perl5 ] && ls -ld /usr/local/share/perl5 2. If found, verify their permissions: stat -c "%a %n" /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 3. If permissions are set to 600, change them to 755 to allow access for non-root users: chmod 755 /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 If you have any affected assets, please follow the above steps OR Qualys Technical Support Team can assist in sharing and executing the script for the above step.