CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-1238

7.8 HIGH Published 2016-08-02 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-08-02
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-264

Description

(1) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptar, (2) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptardiff, (3) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptargrep, (4) cpan/CPAN/scripts/cpan, (5) cpan/Digest-SHA/shasum, (6) cpan/Encode/bin/enc2xs, (7) cpan/Encode/bin/encguess, (8) cpan/Encode/bin/piconv, (9) cpan/Encode/bin/ucmlint, (10) cpan/Encode/bin/unidump, (11) cpan/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/bin/instmodsh, (12) cpan/IO-Compress/bin/zipdetails, (13) cpan/JSON-PP/bin/json_pp, (14) cpan/Test-Harness/bin/prove, (15) dist/ExtUtils-ParseXS/lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp, (16) dist/Module-CoreList/corelist, (17) ext/Pod-Html/bin/pod2html, (18) utils/c2ph.PL, (19) utils/h2ph.PL, (20) utils/h2xs.PL, (21) utils/libnetcfg.PL, (22) utils/perlbug.PL, (23) utils/perldoc.PL, (24) utils/perlivp.PL, and (25) utils/splain.PL in Perl 5.x before 5.22.3-RC2 and 5.24 before 5.24.1-RC2 do not properly remove . (period) characters from the end of the includes directory array, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse module under the current working directory.

Affected configurations

• debian debian linux 8.0 • fedoraproject fedora 23 • fedoraproject fedora 24 • perl perl 1.0.15 • perl perl 1.0.16 • perl perl 5.000 • perl perl 5.000o • perl perl 5.001 • perl perl 5.001n • perl perl 5.002 • perl perl 5.002 01 • perl perl 5.003 • perl perl 5.003 01 • perl perl 5.003 02 • perl perl 5.003 03 • perl perl 5.003 04 • perl perl 5.003 05 • perl perl 5.003 07 • perl perl 5.003 08 • perl perl 5.003 09 • perl perl 5.003 10 • perl perl 5.003 11 • perl perl 5.003 12 • perl perl 5.003 13 • perl perl 5.003 14 • perl perl 5.003 15 • perl perl 5.003 16 • perl perl 5.003 17 • perl perl 5.003 18 • perl perl 5.003 19 • perl perl 5.003 20 • perl perl 5.003 21 • perl perl 5.003 22 • perl perl 5.003 23 • perl perl 5.003 24 • perl perl 5.003 25 • perl perl 5.003 26 • perl perl 5.003 27 • perl perl 5.003 28 • perl perl 5.003 90 • perl perl 5.003 91 • perl perl 5.003 92 • perl perl 5.003 93 • perl perl 5.003 94 • perl perl 5.003 95 • perl perl 5.003 96 • perl perl 5.003 97 • perl perl 5.003 97a • perl perl 5.003 97b • perl perl 5.003 97c • perl perl 5.003 97d • perl perl 5.003 97e • perl perl 5.003 97f • perl perl 5.003 97g • perl perl 5.003 97h • perl perl 5.003 97i • perl perl 5.003 97j • perl perl 5.003 98 • perl perl 5.003 99 • perl perl 5.003 99a … and 133 more

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References