CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-5377

6.0 MEDIUM Published 2012-10-11 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-10-11
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.0 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installation functionality in ActivePerl 5.16.1.1601, when installed in the top-level C:\ directory, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the C:\Perl\Site\bin directory, which is added to the PATH system environment variable, as demonstrated by a Trojan horse wlbsctrl.dll file used by the "IKE and AuthIP IPsec Keying Modules" system service in Windows Vista SP1, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows 7 SP1, and Windows 8 Release Preview.

Affected configurations

• activestate activeperl 5.16.1.1601

References