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CVE-2014-1875

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.6 v2.0)
• 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: 2014-10-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

The Capture::Tiny module before 0.24 for Perl allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

Affected products

• Cspan Capture-Tiny: through 0.23; 0.20, 0.21, 0.22

References

• http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/DAGOLDEN/Capture-Tiny-0.24/Changes
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128823.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128882.html
• http://osvdb.org/102963
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/267
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/272
• http://secunia.com/advisories/56823
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65475
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737835
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062424
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/91464
• https://github.com/dagolden/Capture-Tiny/commit/635c9eabd52ab8042b0c841823bd6e692de87924

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