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Perl Improper Link Resolution Before File Access (Link Following) Vulnerability - CVE-1999-1386 - Vulnerability Database
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Perl Improper Link Resolution Before File Access (Link Following) Vulnerability - CVE-1999-1386

Medium
Reference: CVE-1999-1386
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-1386
Title: Perl Improper Link Resolution Before File Access (Link Following) Vulnerability
Overview:

Perl 5.004_04 and earlier follows symbolic links when running with the -e option which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/perl-eaXXXXX file.