Published: 17/10/2017 Updated: 04/02/2020

CVSS v2 Base Score: 3.6 | Impact Score: 4.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.1 | Impact Score: 5.2 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 320

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

The make_temporary_filename function in perltidy 20120701-1 and previous versions allows local users to obtain sensitive information or write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack, related to use of the tmpnam function.

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Debian Bug report logs - #740670 perltidy: insecure permissions of temporary files Package: perltidy; Maintainer for perltidy is Don Armstrong <don@debianorg>; Source for perltidy is src:perltidy (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debianorg> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 22:30:01 UTC Severity: normal Ta ...

It was discovered that perltidy's make_temporary_filename() function insecurely created temporary files via the use of the tmpnam() function A local attacker could use this flaw to perform a symbolic link attack ...

The make_temporary_filename function in perltidy 20120701-1 and earlier allows local users to obtain sensitive information or write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack, related to use of the tmpnam function ...

CWE-284 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/92104 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1074720 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66139 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/09/1 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-March/130479.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-March/130464.html https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=740670 https://nvd.nist.gov https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2014-356.html

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