PT-2008-4266 · Perl Foundation+5 · Perl

Published 2008-06-23 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-2827

Mitre

CVSS v2.0

4.6

Medium

Base vector

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

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.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-2827

DTSA-142-1

Affected Products

Perl

References · 17

• 🔥 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487319 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=36982 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/31959 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2827 · Security Note
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg01025.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-2827 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:165 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-2827 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2827 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30837 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2827 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30790 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31687 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1020373 · Note