Link Following Affecting perl package, versions <5.24.1-3+deb9u4
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Integrity
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
57% (98th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-PERL-327722
- published 7 Jun 2018
- disclosed 7 Jun 2018
Introduced: 7 Jun 2018
CVE-2018-12015 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9
perl
to version 5.24.1-3+deb9u4 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perl
package and not the perl
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:9
relevant fixed versions and status.
In Perl through 5.26.2, the Archive::Tar module allows remote attackers to bypass a directory-traversal protection mechanism, and overwrite arbitrary files, via an archive file containing a symlink and a regular file with the same name.