Published: 01/06/2017 Updated: 29/04/2020

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6

CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.9 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 2.2

VMScore: 383

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

Race condition in the rmtree and remove_tree functions in the File-Path module prior to 2.13 for Perl allows malicious users to set the mode on arbitrary files via vectors involving directory-permission loosening logic.

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Debian Bug report logs - #863870 perl: File-Path rmtree/remove_tree race condition [CVE-2017-6512] Package: perl; Maintainer for perl is Niko Tyni <ntyni@debianorg>; Source for perl is src:perl (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earthli> Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 09:45:02 UTC Severity: critica ...

Several security issues were fixed in Perl ...

The cPanel Security Team reported a time of check to time of use (TOCTTOU) race condition flaw in File::Path, a core module from Perl to create or remove directory trees An attacker can take advantage of this flaw to set the mode on an attacker-chosen file to a attacker-chosen value For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixe ...

Race condition in the rmtree and remove_tree functions in the File-Path module before 213 for Perl allows attackers to set the mode on arbitrary files via vectors involving directory-permission loosening logic ...

CWE-362 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121951 http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/JKEENAN/File-Path-2.13/Changes http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99180 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038610 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-12 http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3873 http://security.cucumberlinux.com/security/details.php?id=153 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-2/https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-1/https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=863870 https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-2/

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