CVE-2004-0452

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

21/12/2004

Last modified:

03/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 2.60 LOW
Vector: AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical