VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2004-0452
CVSS score2.6 LOW
EPSS probability0.40%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2004-12-21
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
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.
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