CVE-2008-5303: Perl File::path

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Race condition in the rmtree function in File::Path 1.08 (lib/File/Path.pm) in Perl 5.8.8 allows local users to to delete arbitrary files via a symlink attack, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-0448, CVE-2004-0452, and CVE-2008-2827. NOTE: this is a regression error related to CVE-2005-0448. It is different from CVE-2008-5302 due to affected versions.

Affected products

• Perl File::path: version 1.08 only

Published 2008-12-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.