Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-5303

Title: Perl Perl Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2008-5303.

CWE Category CWE-362

Published Date Dec 01, 2008

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.9 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.33%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-5303: 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.

Impacted Vendors

perl 2

larry_wall 1

Reference Links

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=286905 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=286922#36 http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705 http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10735 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html http://secunia.com/advisories/32980 http://secunia.com/advisories/33314 http://secunia.com/advisories/40052 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077 http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0011 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1678 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/perl/porters/233695#233695 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:116 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/28/2 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0458.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500210/100/0/threaded http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-2 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47044 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6680 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9699 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=286905 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=286922#36 http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705 http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10735 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html http://secunia.com/advisories/32980 http://secunia.com/advisories/33314 http://secunia.com/advisories/40052 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077 http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0011 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1678 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/perl/porters/233695#233695 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:116 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/28/2 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0458.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500210/100/0/threaded http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-2 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47044 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6680 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9699

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.9

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-5303 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 01, 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:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.