Taint mode was designed to protect against a shell user who can set environment variables, which is why it ignores
$PERL5LIB. In a Web application, however, the environment is not under the control of a potential attacker, so it's not a threat. In many of my perl scripts, I use this code to pay attention to
$PERL5LIB even in taint mode:
BEGIN {
# Blindly untaint. Taintchecking is to protect from Web data;
# the environment is under our control.
if ($ENV{PERL5LIB} and $ENV{PERL5LIB} =~ /^(.*)$/)
{
eval "use lib '$_';"
foreach (reverse split(/:/,$1));
}
if ($ENV{PATH} and $ENV{PATH} =~ /^(.*)$/)
{
$ENV{PATH}=$1;
}
}
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