CVE-2008-2827
23Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendepss 0.8%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDJun 23
1st PoCJun 23
exploitation probability
0.8%top 45% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
The rmtree function in lib/File/Path.pm in Perl 5.10 does not properly check permissions before performing a chmod, which allows local users to modify the permissions of arbitrary files via a symlink attack, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-0448 and CVE-2004-0452.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof
exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/31959⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487319http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.htmlhttp://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=36982http://secunia.com/advisories/30790http://secunia.com/advisories/30837http://secunia.com/advisories/31687https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43308https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg01025.htmlhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:165http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29902http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020373