Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-2827

Title: Perl

Other

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2008-2827

CWE Category CWE-264

Published Date Jun 23, 2008

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 4.6 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.85%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-2827: 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.

Impacted Vendors

larry_wall 1

perl 1

Reference Links

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.6

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-2827 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/31959

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

June 23, 2008 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.