CVEvulnerability

CVE-2004-0452

2.6 LOW Published 2004-12-21 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2004-12-21
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.6 LOW — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Description

Race condition in the rmtree function in the File::Path module in Perl 5.6.1 and 5.8.4 sets read/write permissions for the world, which allows local users to delete arbitrary files and directories, and possibly read files and directories, via a symlink attack.

Affected configurations

• larry wall perl 5.6.1 • larry wall perl 5.8.4

References