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CVE-2004-0452

LOW CVSS: 2.6 Published: 2004-12-21 Modified: 2026-06-16

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 Platforms

Larry Wall Perl

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References