CVE-2011-4114

Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-01-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The par_mktmpdir function in the PAR::Packer module before 1.012 for Perl creates temporary files in a directory with a predictable name without verifying ownership and permissions of this directory, which allows local users to overwrite files when another user extracts a PAR packed program. NOTE: a similar vulnerability was reported for PAR, but this has been assigned a different CVE identifier.

Affected products

Roderich Schupp Par-Packer Module: through 1.011; 0.63, 0.64, 0.65, 0.66, 0.67, 0.68 (+65)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071091.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071099.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/04/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/04/4
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753955
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=69560
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071091.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071099.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/04/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/04/4
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753955
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=69560

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