Lots of good advice given so far. The only thing I would add would be that you could try and explicitly set your PATH and IFS environment variables, and clean out other naughty variables (this last idea pinched directly from perlsec).

$ENV{PATH} = '/bin:/usr/bin';
$ENV{IFS}  = '';
delete @ENV{qw/CDPATH ENV BASH_ENV/};
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