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CVSSv2

CVE-2008-2827

Published: 23/06/2008 Updated: 08/08/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.6 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 465
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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Vulnerability Summary

The rmtree function in lib/File/Path.pm in Perl 5.10 does not properly check permissions before performing a chmod, which allows local users to modify the permissions of arbitrary files via a symlink attack, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-0448 and CVE-2004-0452.

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perl perl 5.10

Vendor Advisories

Debian CVElist Bug Report Logs: perl-modules: File::Path::rmtree sets symlink target permissions to 0777
Debian Bug report logs - #487319 perl-modules: File::Path::rmtree sets symlink target permissions to 0777 Package: perl-modules; Maintainer for perl-modules is Niko Tyni <ntyni@debianorg>; Source for perl-modules is src:perl (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadentorguk> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 200 ...

Exploits

Exploit DB: Perl - 'rmtree()' Function Local Insecure Permissions
source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/29902/info Computers running Perl are prone to a local vulnerability that occurs when handling symbolic links Attackers can leverage this issue to change the permissions of arbitrary files Perl 5100 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected % touch foo % ln -s foo bar % ls -l foo bar lrwxrw ...

References

CWE-264http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487319http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=36982http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29902http://secunia.com/advisories/30790http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.htmlhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:165https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg01025.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/30837http://secunia.com/advisories/31687http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020373https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43308https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487319https://nvd.nist.govhttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/31959/
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