CVE-2008-2827

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-06-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The rmtree function in lib/File/Path.pm in Perl 5.10 does not properly check permissions before performing a chmod, which allows local users to modify the permissions of arbitrary files via a symlink attack, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-0448 and CVE-2004-0452.

Affected products

perl: 5.10

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487319
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=36982
http://secunia.com/advisories/30790
http://secunia.com/advisories/30837
http://secunia.com/advisories/31687
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:165
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29902
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020373
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43308
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg01025.html
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487319

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