CVE-2004-0452: Larry Wall Perl

Low severity, CVSS 2.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Larry Wall Perl: version 5.6.1 only; version 5.8.4 only

Published 2004-12-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.