CVE-2011-4363
LOW · CVSS 2.6EPSS 0.3%EU EUVD
ProcessTable.pm in the Proc::ProcessTable module 0.45 for Perl, when TTY information caching is enabled, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/TTYDEVS.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 2.6 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-59
- EPSS score
- 0.3% (23th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-4293)
- Published
- October 7, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-4293 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on September 16, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- frii / proc
- perl / perl
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=650500
- http://secunia.com/advisories/47015
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/30/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/30/3
- http://www.osvdb.org/77428
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50868
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-4363
- https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=72862
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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