CVE-2004-0452
N/A
Published: December 31, 2004 at 05:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:05 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorPerl
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
Description
Race condition in the rmtree function in the File::Path module in Perl 5.6.1 and 5.8.4 sets read/write permissions for the world, which allows local users to delete arbitrary files and directories, and possibly read files and directories, via a symlink attack.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (14)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SGI
Source: [email protected]
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060101-01-UVendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Source: [email protected]
http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA--.shtmlMailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Source: [email protected]
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110547693019788&w=2Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-620Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200501-38.xmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
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