fkie_cve-2025-40909
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2025-05-30 13:15
Modified
2025-06-03 04:15
Severity ?
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Summary
Perl threads have a working directory race condition where file operations may target unintended paths. If a directory handle is open at thread creation, the process-wide current working directory is temporarily changed in order to clone that handle for the new thread, which is visible from any third (or more) thread already running. This may lead to unintended operations such as loading code or accessing files from unexpected locations, which a local attacker may be able to exploit. The bug was introduced in commit 11a11ecf4bea72b17d250cfb43c897be1341861e and released in Perl version 5.13.6
References
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441ehttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1098226
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441ehttps://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/11a11ecf4bea72b17d250cfb43c897be1341861e
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441ehttps://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/918bfff86ca8d6d4e4ec5b30994451e0bd74aba9.patch
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441ehttps://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/10387
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441ehttps://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/23010
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441ehttps://perldoc.perl.org/5.14.0/perl5136delta#Directory-handles-not-copied-to-threads
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441ehttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/22/2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/23/1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/30/4
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/02/2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/02/5
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/02/6
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/02/7
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/03/1
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      "value": "Perl threads have a working directory race condition where file operations may target unintended paths.\n\nIf a directory handle is open at thread creation, the process-wide current working directory is temporarily changed in order to clone\u00a0that handle for the new thread, which is visible from any third (or\u00a0more) thread already running. \n\nThis may lead to unintended operations\u00a0such as loading code or accessing files from unexpected locations,\u00a0which a local attacker may be able to exploit.\n\nThe bug was introduced in commit\u00a011a11ecf4bea72b17d250cfb43c897be1341861e and released in Perl version 5.13.6"
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