Race condition vulnerability in Perl's File::Path module allows local users to delete arbitrary files and directories via symlink attack

CVE-2004-0452 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:H/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

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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