CVE-2005-0448: Larry Wall Perl

Low severity, CVSS 1.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Race condition in the rmtree function in File::Path.pm in Perl before 5.8.4 allows local users to create arbitrary setuid binaries in the tree being deleted, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0452.

Affected products

• Larry Wall Perl: version 5.8.0 only; version 5.8.1 only; version 5.8.3 only; version 5.8.4 only

Published 2005-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.