CVE-2008-5303: perl Debian

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2008-5303 is a medium (CVSS 6.9) vulnerability in perl Debian. EPSS estimates a 0.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 26.4% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 01-12-2008
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 07-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

• CWE-362Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper SynchronizationThe product contains a concurrent code sequence that requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence operating concurrently.