CVE-2012-2451
The Config::IniFiles module before 2.71 for Perl creates temporary files with predictable names, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information. NOTE: it has been reported that this might only be exploitable by writing in the same directory as the .ini file. If this is the case, then this issue might not cross privilege boundaries.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 3.6 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P- EPSS score
- 0.5% (43th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-2437)
- Published
- June 27, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-2437 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- shlomi fish / config-inifiles
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080713.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080716.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/081207.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48990(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/02/6
- http://www.osvdb.org/81671
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53361
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1543-1
- https://bitbucket.org/shlomif/perl-config-inifiles/changeset/a08fa26f4f59(Exploit, Patch)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=818386
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75328
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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