{"id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10374","details":"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.","modified":"2026-09-22T07:01:20.042180727Z","published":"2017-05-17T19:29:00.117Z","upstream":["CVE-2016-10374"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10374"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"perltidy","ecosystem":"Debian:12","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/perltidy?arch=source&distro=bookworm"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"20140328-2"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10374.json"}},{"package":{"name":"perltidy","ecosystem":"Debian:13","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/perltidy?arch=source&distro=trixie"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"20140328-2"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10374.json"}},{"package":{"name":"perltidy","ecosystem":"Debian:14","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/perltidy?arch=source&distro=forky"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"20140328-2"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10374.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"}]}