CPANSA-ActivePerl-2006-2856: ActivePerl vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2006-06-06T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date 2006-06-06T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score Severity
Original language Language en
Also referred to

Vulnerability Description

ActiveState ActivePerl 5.8.8.817 for Windows configures the site/lib directory with "Users" group permissions for changing files, which allows local users to gain privileges by creating a malicious sitecustomize.pl file in that directory. NOTE: The provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-2856

Vulnerability Description

ActiveState ActivePerl 5.8.8.817 for Windows configures the site/lib directory with "Users" group permissions for changing files, which allows local users to gain privileges by creating a malicious sitecustomize.pl file in that directory. NOTE: The provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
ActivePerl equal 5.8.8.817
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
2.0 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P 4.6 Medium

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References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Tue Jun 6 00:00:00 2006 First release

Sharing rules

TLP:WHITE
For the TLP version see: https://www.first.org/tlp/