Vulnerabilities > CVE-2011-4115 - Unspecified vulnerability in Cpan Parallel::Forkmanager
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
NONE Summary
Parallel::ForkManager module before 1.0.0 for Perl does not properly handle temporary files.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 13 |
Nessus
| NASL family | Gentoo Local Security Checks |
| NASL id | GENTOO_GLSA-201310-11.NASL |
| description | The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201310-11 (Perl Parallel-ForkManager Module: Insecure temporary file usage) The Perl Parallel-ForkManager module does not handle temporary files securely. Impact : A local attacker could perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running the application. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time. |
| last seen | 2020-06-01 |
| modified | 2020-06-02 |
| plugin id | 70487 |
| published | 2013-10-18 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/70487 |
| title | GLSA-201310-11 : Perl Parallel-ForkManager Module: Insecure temporary file usage |