CVE-2008-2827: Perl

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The rmtree function in lib/File/Path.pm in Perl 5.10 does not properly check permissions before performing a chmod, which allows local users to modify the permissions of arbitrary files via a symlink attack, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-0448 and CVE-2004-0452.

Affected products

• Perl Perl: version 5.10 only

Published 2008-06-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.