Vulnerabilities > Perltidy Project > Perltidy > 2012.07.14

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2017-05-17 CVE-2016-10374 Link Following vulnerability in Perltidy Project Perltidy
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.
local
low complexity
perltidy-project CWE-59
2.1