CVE-2008-5303 — Race Condition in Perl

CWE-362 — Race Condition12 documents6 sources
Severity
6.9MEDIUMNVD
OSV2.6
EPSS
0.0%
top 92.04%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
PerlDebian PerlPerl File
Timeline
PublishedDec 1
Latest updateMay 14

Description

Race condition in the rmtree function in File::Path 1.08 (lib/File/Path.pm) in Perl 5.8.8 allows local users to to delete arbitrary files 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-2008-5302 due to affected versions.

CVSS vector

AV:L/AC:M/C:C/I:C/A:CExploitability: 3.4 | Impact: 10.0

Affected Packages3 packages

▶NVDperl/file\
▶debiandebian/perl< perl 5.10.0-18 (bookworm)
▶Debianperl/perl< 5.10.0-18+3

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-4m3f-gxf5-6jm9: Race condition in the rmtree function in File::Path 1↗2022-05-14
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GHSA
GHSA-8vc4-5x78-9hxf: Race condition in the rmtree function in File::Path 1↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2008-5302: Race condition in the rmtree function in File::Path 1↗2008-12-01
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OSV
CVE-2008-5303: Race condition in the rmtree function in File::Path 1↗2008-12-01
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📋Vendor Advisories

6
Ubuntu
Perl regression↗2009-01-15
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Ubuntu
Perl vulnerabilities↗2008-12-24
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Red Hat
perl: File:: Path rmtree race condition (CVE-2005-0448) reintroduced after upstream rebase to 5.8.8-1↗2008-11-19
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Red Hat
perl: File:: Path rmtree race condition (CVE-2004-0452) reintroduced after upstream rebase to 5.8.8-1↗2008-11-19
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Debian
CVE-2008-5303: perl - Race condition in the rmtree function in File::Path 1.08 (lib/File/Path.pm) in P...↗2008
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CVE-2008-5303 — Race Condition in Debian Perl | cvebase