perltidy through 20160302, as used by perlcritic, check-all-the-things, and other software, relies on the current working directory for certain output files and does not have a symlink-attack protection mechanism, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by creating a symlink, as demonstrated by creating a perltidy.ERR symlink that the victim cannot delete.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-05-17T19:00:00Z

Updated: 2024-09-17T02:27:13.650Z

Reserved: 2017-05-17T00:00:00Z

Link: CVE-2016-10374

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-05-17T19:29:00.117

Modified: 2020-03-02T18:50:10.953

Link: CVE-2016-10374

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2016-08-13T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-10374 - Bugzilla