CVE-2006-2856: Activestate Activeperl

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

ActiveState ActivePerl 5.8.8.817 for Windows configures the site/lib directory with "Users" group permissions for changing files, which allows local users to gain privileges by creating a malicious sitecustomize.pl file in that directory. NOTE: The provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

Affected products

Published 2006-06-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.