CVE-2017-6512 — Race Condition in Perl

CWE-362 — Race ConditionCWE-367 — Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition10 documents7 sources
Severity
5.9MEDIUMNVD
OSV7.5
EPSS
0.9%
top 24.37%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
PerlDebian PerlCanonical Ubuntu Linux+1 more
Timeline
PublishedJun 1
Latest updateMay 13

Description

Race condition in the rmtree and remove_tree functions in the File-Path module before 2.13 for Perl allows attackers to set the mode on arbitrary files via vectors involving directory-permission loosening logic.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NExploitability: 2.2 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/perl< perl 5.24.1-3 (bookworm)
▶Debianperl/perl< 5.24.1-3+3
▶Ubuntuperl/perl< 5.18.2-2ubuntu1.4+1

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0, Ubuntu Linux 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 17.10

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-wf3v-xjg6-86hx: Race condition in the rmtree and remove_tree functions in the File-Path module before 2↗2022-05-13
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OSV
perl vulnerabilities↗2018-04-16
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OSV
CVE-2017-6512: Race condition in the rmtree and remove_tree functions in the File-Path module before 2↗2017-06-01
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
Perl vulnerabilities↗2018-04-17
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Ubuntu
Perl vulnerabilities↗2018-04-16
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Red Hat
perl-File-Path: rmtree/remove_tree race condition↗2017-05-02
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Debian
CVE-2017-6512: perl - Race condition in the rmtree and remove_tree functions in the File-Path module b...↗2017
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-6512 perl-File-Path: rmtree/remove_tree race condition↗2017-06-01
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-6512 perl-File-Path: rmtree/remove_tree race condition [fedora-all]↗2017-06-01
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