Perl Permissions Privileges and Access Controls Vulnerability - CVE-2016-1238 - Vulnerability Database

Perl Permissions Privileges and Access Controls Vulnerability - CVE-2016-1238

High

Reference: CVE-2016-1238

NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1238

Title: Perl Permissions Privileges and Access Controls Vulnerability

Overview:

(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.