Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2008-2827 First vendor Publication 2008-06-23
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2017-08-08

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.6 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2827

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-07-29 Name : Fedora Core 10 FEDORA-2009-7680 (perl)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_7680.nasl
2009-04-09 Name : Mandriva Update for perl MDVSA-2008:165 (perl)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2008_165.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for perl FEDORA-2008-5739
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_5739_perl_fc9.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
46563 Perl File::Path::rmtree lib/File/Path.pm Symlink Arbitrary File chmod

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2009-07-21 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_0_perl-080715.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2008-165.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-07-02 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-5739.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29902
CONFIRM http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487319
FEDORA https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg01025.html
MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:165
MISC http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=36982
SECTRACK http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020373
SECUNIA http://secunia.com/advisories/30790
http://secunia.com/advisories/30837
http://secunia.com/advisories/31687
SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html
XF https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43308

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