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CVE-1999-1386

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 1999-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

Perl 5.004_04 and earlier follows symbolic links when running with the -e option, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/perl-eaXXXXX file.

Affected products

• perl: through 5.004_04

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=88932165406213&w=2
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7243.php
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/rh50-errata-general.html#perl
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=88932165406213&w=2
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7243.php
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/rh50-errata-general.html#perl

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