CVE-2011-5060

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 module before 1.003 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, a different vulnerability in a different package than CVE-2011-4114.

Affected products

Roderich Schupp Par-Packer Module: through 1.002; 0.63, 0.64, 0.65, 0.66, 0.67, 0.68 (+56)

References

http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/RSCHUPP/PAR-1.003/ChangeLog
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753955
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/72435
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=69560
http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/RSCHUPP/PAR-1.003/ChangeLog
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753955
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/72435
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=69560

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