CPANSA-File-Path-2008-2827: File-Path vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2008-06-23T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date 2008-06-23T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score Severity
Original language Language en
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Vulnerability Description

The rmtree function in lib/File/Path.pm in Perl 5.10 does not properly check permissions before performing a chmod, which allows local users to modify the permissions of arbitrary files via a symlink attack, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-0448 and CVE-2004-0452.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-2827

Vulnerability Description

The rmtree function in lib/File/Path.pm in Perl 5.10 does not properly check permissions before performing a chmod, which allows local users to modify the permissions of arbitrary files via a symlink attack, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-0448 and CVE-2004-0452.

Weakness CWE-264 : Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
File-Path greater than or equal 2.04 and less than 2.07
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
Fixed

giterlizzi

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gdt@cpan.org

References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Mon Jun 23 00:00:00 2008 First release

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