PT-2016-3933 · Perl · Pathtools

Published 2016-01-11 · Updated 2020-07-15 · CVE-2015-8607

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions PathTools versions prior to 3.62

Description The issue is related to the canonpath function in the File::Spec module, which does not properly preserve the taint attribute of data. This might allow attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism via a crafted string.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.62, update to version 3.62 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-8607

DSA-3441-1

MGASA-2016-0027

USN-2878-1

Affected Products

Pathtools

References · 31

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175494.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3441 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8607 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8607 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0027 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2878-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3441-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0027.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8607 · Vendor Advisory
• https://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3441 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8607 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8607 · Security Note
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175494.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-8607 · Vendor Advisory
• https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=126862 · Vendor Advisory