CPANSA-Mite-2025-30672: Mite vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2025-04-01T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date 2025-04-01T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score 6.5 Severity
Original language Language en
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Vulnerability Description

Mite for Perl before 0.013000 generates code with the current working directory ('.') added to the @INC path similar to CVE-2016-1238. If an attacker can place a malicious file in current working directory, it may be loaded instead of the intended file, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution. This affects the Mite distribution itself, and other distributions that contain code generated by Mite.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-30672

Vulnerability Description

Mite for Perl before 0.013000 generates code with the current working directory ('.') added to the @INC path similar to CVE-2016-1238.

If an attacker can place a malicious file in current working directory, it may be
loaded instead of the intended file, potentially leading to arbitrary
code execution.

This affects the Mite distribution itself, and other distributions that contain code generated by Mite.

Weakness CWE-427 : Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
Mite less than 0.013000
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N 6.5 Medium
Fixed

giterlizzi

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gdt@cpan.org

References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Tue Apr 1 00:00:00 2025 First release

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