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Fencer Vulns
low 2.6

CVE-2004-0452 json

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 all…

published 2004-12-21 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2004-0451

cvss
2.6
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 34%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • perl Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.8.4-5

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2004-0452

  • perl RHEL 3 2:5.8.0-89.10
  • perl-CGI RHEL 3 2:2.81-89.10
  • perl-CPAN RHEL 3 2:1.61-89.10
  • perl-DB_File RHEL 3 2:1.804-89.10
  • perl-suidperl RHEL 3 2:5.8.0-89.10
  • perl RHEL 4 3:5.8.5-12.1
  • perl-suidperl RHEL 4 3:5.8.5-12.1.1

red hat advisories RHSA-2005:105RHSA-2005:103

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2004-0452 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 perl 5.8.0-89.10, perl-CGI 2.81-89.10, perl-CPAN 1.61-89.10, perl-DB_File 1.804-89.10, perl-suidperl 5.8.0-89.10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 perl 5.8.0-89.10, perl-CGI 2.81-89.10, perl-CPAN 1.61-89.10, perl-DB_File 1.804-89.10, perl-suidperl 5.8.0-89.10
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:105
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 perl 5.8.5-12.1, perl-suidperl 5.8.5-12.1.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 perl 5.8.5-12.1, perl-suidperl 5.8.5-12.1.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:103
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 perl 5.8.0-89.10, perl-CGI 2.81-89.10, perl-CPAN 1.61-89.10, perl-DB_File 1.804-89.10, perl-suidperl 5.8.0-89.10
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:105
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 perl 5.8.5-12.1, perl-suidperl 5.8.5-12.1.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:103
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 perl 5.8.0-89.10, perl-CGI 2.81-89.10, perl-CPAN 1.61-89.10, perl-DB_File 1.804-89.10, perl-suidperl 5.8.0-89.10
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:105
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 perl 5.8.5-12.1, perl-suidperl 5.8.5-12.1.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:103

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 34% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 2.6 AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.