CVE-2004-0452
EPSS 0.05%perl - privilege escalation
Published: 12/21/2004Modified: 4/28/2026
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 packages (3)
- Debian/perlfrom 0, < 5.8.4-5
- Debian/perlfrom 0, < 5.8.8-7etch5
- Debian/perlfrom 0, < 5.6.1-8.8