CVE-2016-1238 Information

Description

(1) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptar (2) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptardiff (3) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptargrep (4) cpan/CPAN/scripts/cpan (5) cpan/Digest-SHA/shasum (6) cpan/Encode/bin/enc2xs (7) cpan/Encode/bin/encguess (8) cpan/Encode/bin/piconv (9) cpan/Encode/bin/ucmlint (10) cpan/Encode/bin/unidump (11) cpan/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/bin/instmodsh (12) cpan/IO-Compress/bin/zipdetails (13) cpan/JSON-PP/bin/json_pp (14) cpan/Test-Harness/bin/prove (15) dist/ExtUtils-ParseXS/lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp (16) dist/Module-CoreList/corelist (17) ext/Pod-Html/bin/pod2html (18) utils/c2ph.PL (19) utils/h2ph.PL (20) utils/h2xs.PL (21) utils/libnetcfg.PL (22) utils/perlbug.PL (23) utils/perldoc.PL (24) utils/perlivp.PL and (25) utils/splain.PL in Perl 5.x before 5.22.3-RC2 and 5.24 before 5.24.1-RC2 do not properly remove . (period) characters from the end of the includes directory array which might allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse module under the current working directory.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00002.html http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/cee96d52c39b1e7b36e1c62d38bcd8d86e9a41ab http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3628 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238271.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92136 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036440 https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7f6a16bc0fd0fd5e67c7fd95bd655069a2ac7d1f88e42d3c853e601c@3Cannounce.apache.org3E https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00016.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2FBQOCV3GBAN2EYZUM3CFDJ4ECA3GZOK/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DOFRQWJRP2NQJEYEWOMECVW3HAMD5SYN/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TZBNQH3DMI7HDELJAZ4TFJJANHXOEDWH/ https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=127834 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-75 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201812-07

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8