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CVE-2008-5303

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.9 Published: 2008-12-01 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Race condition in the rmtree function in File::Path 1.08 (lib/File/Path.pm) in Perl 5.8.8 allows local users to to delete arbitrary files via a symlink attack, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-0448, CVE-2004-0452, and CVE-2008-2827. NOTE: this is a regression error related to CVE-2005-0448. It is different from CVE-2008-5302 due to affected versions.

Affected Platforms

Perl File\Perl Perl

Weakness Type

CWE-362

References