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CVE-2004-0452

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2004-12-21 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Race condition in the rmtree function in the File::Path module in Perl 5.6.1 and 5.8.4 sets read/write permissions for the world, which allows local users to delete arbitrary files and directories, and possibly read files and directories, via a symlink attack.

Affected products

• Larry Wall Perl: 5.6.1, 5.8.4

References

• http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA--.shtml
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110547693019788&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/12991
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18517
• http://secunia.com/advisories/55314
• http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-620
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200501-38.xml
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-103.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-105.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12072
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18650

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