Vulnerability CVE-2004-0452
Published: 2004-12-21   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.6/10
4.9/10
1.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
High
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Larry wall -> PERL 

 References:
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060101-01-U
http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA--.shtml
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110547693019788&w=2
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-620
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200501-38.xml
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-103.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-105.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12072
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18650
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9938
https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-44-1/
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