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CVE-2008-5302
published 2008-12-01

CVE-2008-5302: Race condition in the rmtree function in File::Path 1.08 and 2.07 (lib/File/Path.pm) in Perl 5.8.8 and 5.10.0 allows local users to create arbitrary setuid…

PriorityP421medium6.9CVSS 2.0
AVLACMAuNCCICAC
EPSS
0.33%
25.6th percentile
Race condition in the rmtree function in File::Path 1.08 and 2.07 (lib/File/Path.pm) in Perl 5.8.8 and 5.10.0 allows local users to create arbitrary setuid binaries via a symlink attack, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-0448, CVE-2004-0452, and CVE-2008-2827. NOTE: this is a regression error related to CVE-2005-0448. It is different from CVE-2008-5303 due to affected versions.

Affected

6 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianperl< perl 5.10.0-18 (bookworm)perl 5.10.0-18 (bookworm)
perlfile
perlperl>= 0 < 5.10.0-185.10.0-18
perlperl>= 0 < 5.10.0-185.10.0-18
perlperl>= 0 < 5.10.0-185.10.0-18
perlperl>= 0 < 5.10.0-185.10.0-18

CVSS provenance

nvdv2.06.9MEDIUMAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
osv2.6LOW
vendor_ubuntu6.8MEDIUM
vendor_debian2.6LOW
vendor_redhat2.6LOW
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