CVE-2010-2253
lwp-download in libwww-perl before 5.835 does not reject downloads to filenames that begin with a . (dot) character, which allows remote servers to create or overwrite files via (1) a 3xx redirect to a URL with a crafted filename or (2) a Content-Disposition header that suggests a crafted filename, and possibly execute arbitrary code as a consequence of writing to a dotfile in a home directory.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 3.3% (89th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-2265)
- Published
- July 6, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-2265 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
- gisle aas / libwww-perl
and 72 more…
References
- http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/GAAS/libwww-perl-5.836/Changes
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050232.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050245.html
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127411372529485&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127611288927500&w=2
- http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2010-001.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-981-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2872
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591580
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=602800
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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