CVE-2017-6512

MEDIUM5.9EPSS 1.4%

perl - security update

Published: 6/1/2017Modified: 3/9/2026

Also known as:DSA-3873-1DEBIAN-CVE-2017-6512

Description

Race condition in the rmtree and remove_tree functions in the File-Path module before 2.13 for Perl allows attackers to set the mode on arbitrary files via vectors involving directory-permission loosening logic.

Affected packages (3)

Debian/perlfrom 0, < 5.24.1-3
Debian/perlfrom 0, < 5.14.2-21+deb7u5
Debian/perlfrom 0, < 5.20.2-3+deb8u7

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM5.9	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

References (1)

ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-6512