CVE-2004-0452

Ubuntu Security Notice 44-1

Severity Score

9.1

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

Race condition in the rmtree function in the File::Path module in Perl 5.6.1 and 5.8.4 sets read/write permissions for the world, which allows local users to delete arbitrary files and directories, and possibly read files and directories, via a symlink attack.

A race condition and possible information leak has been discovered in Perl's File::Path::rmtree(). This function changes the permission of files and directories before removing them to avoid problems with wrong permissions. However, they were made readable and writable not only for the owner, but for the entire world, which opened a race condition and a possible information leak (if the actual removal of a file/directory failed for some reason).

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

High

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2004-05-06 CVE Reserved
2004-12-21 CVE Published
2024-08-08 CVE Updated
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CAPEC

References (16)

URL	Tag	Source
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110547693019788&w=2	Mailing List
http://secunia.com/advisories/12991	Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/18517	Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/55314	Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12072	Vdb Entry
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18650	Vdb Entry
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9938	Signature

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-620	2017-10-11
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200501-38.xml	2017-10-11
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-103.html	2017-10-11

URL	Date	SRC
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060101-01-U	2017-10-11
http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA--.shtml	2017-10-11
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-105.html	2017-10-11
https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-44-1	2017-10-11
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2004-0452	2005-02-07
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1618363	2005-02-07

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Larry Wall Search vendor "Larry Wall"		Perl Search vendor "Larry Wall" for product "Perl"				5.6.1 Search vendor "Larry Wall" for product "Perl" and version "5.6.1"		-		Affected
Larry Wall Search vendor "Larry Wall"		Perl Search vendor "Larry Wall" for product "Perl"				5.8.4 Search vendor "Larry Wall" for product "Perl" and version "5.8.4"		-		Affected