Vulnerability in Perl

CVE-2008-2827

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.

EPSS: 0.009 (54.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Perl — versions 5.10
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References