{ "document": { "category": "csaf_security_advisory", "csaf_version": "2.0", "distribution": { "tlp": { "label": "WHITE", "url": "https://www.first.org/tlp/" } }, "lang": "en", "notes": [ { "category": "description", "text": "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.", "title": "Vulnerability Description" } ], "publisher": { "category": "other", "contact_details": "gdt@cpan.org", "name": "giterlizzi", "namespace": "https://github.com/giterlizzi/" }, "references": [ { "category": "self", "summary": "CPANSA-Perl-Tidy-2016-10374 JSON", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/giterlizzi/perl-CPANSA-CSAF/develop/csaf/white/2017/cpansa-perl-tidy-2016-10374.json" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://bugs.debian.org/862667", "url": "https://bugs.debian.org/862667" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "CVE-2016-10374 (NVD)", "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10374" } ], "title": "Perl-Tidy vulnerability", "tracking": { "current_release_date": "2017-05-17T00:00:00", "generator": { "engine": { "name": "CSAF Perl Toolkit", "version": "0.26" } }, "id": "CPANSA-Perl-Tidy-2016-10374", "initial_release_date": "2017-05-17T00:00:00", "revision_history": [ { "date": "2017-05-17T00:00:00", "number": "1", "summary": "First release" } ], "status": "final", "version": "1" } }, "product_tree": { "branches": [ { "branches": [ { "category": "product_version_range", "name": "vers:cpan/<=20160302", "product": { "name": "Perl-Tidy less than or equal 20160302", "product_id": "CSAFPID-0001" } }, { "category": "product_version_range", "name": "vers:cpan/>20160302", "product": { "name": "Perl-Tidy greater than 20160302", "product_id": "CSAFPID-0002" } } ], "category": "product_name", "name": "Perl-Tidy" } ] }, "vulnerabilities": [ { "cve": "CVE-2016-10374", "cwe": { "id": "CWE-59", "name": "Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')" }, "notes": [ { "category": "description", "text": "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.", "title": "Vulnerability Description" } ], "product_status": { "fixed": [ "CSAFPID-0002" ], "known_affected": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] }, "scores": [ { "cvss_v2": { "baseScore": 2.1, "vectorString": "AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N", "version": "2.0" }, "cvss_v3": { "baseScore": 5.5, "baseSeverity": "MEDIUM", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N", "version": "3.1" }, "products": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] } ] } ] }