CVE-2016-10374: Perltidy Project Perltidy

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

perltidy through 20160302, as used by perlcritic, check-all-the-things, and other software, relies on the current working directory for certain output files and does not have a symlink-attack protection mechanism, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by creating a symlink, as demonstrated by creating a perltidy.ERR symlink that the victim cannot delete.

Affected products

• Perltidy Project Perltidy: up to and including 2016-03-02

Published 2017-05-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.