Vulnerability in Perl File\

CVE-2008-5302

Race condition in the rmtree function in File::Path 1.08 and 2.07 (lib/File/Path.pm) in Perl 5.8.8 and 5.10.0 allows local users to create arbitrary setuid binaries via a symlink attack, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-0448, CVE-2004-0452, and CVE-2008-2827. NOTE: this is a regression error related to CVE-2005-0448. It is different from CVE-2008-5303 due to affected versions.

Vulnerability class: Race Condition

EPSS: 0.003 (25.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Perl File\ — versions \
  • Perl — versions 5.8.8, 5.10.0
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

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