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Perl Improper Link Resolution Before File Access (Link Following) Vulnerability - CVE-2018-12015 - Vulnerability Database
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Perl Improper Link Resolution Before File Access (Link Following) Vulnerability - CVE-2018-12015

High
Reference: CVE-2018-12015
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12015
Title: Perl Improper Link Resolution Before File Access (Link Following) Vulnerability
Overview:

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.