CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-10374

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2017-05-17 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-05-17
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-59

Description

perltidy through 20160302, as used by perlcritic, check-all-the-things, and other software, relies on the current working directory for certain output files and does not have a symlink-attack protection mechanism, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by creating a symlink, as demonstrated by creating a perltidy.ERR symlink that the victim cannot delete.

Affected configurations

• perltidy project perltidy (<= 2016-03-02)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References