{"id":"UBUNTU-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":"2025-10-24T04:46:00Z","published":"2017-05-17T19:29:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2016-10374"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10374"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.debian.org/862667"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10374"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"perltidy","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/perltidy@20140328-1?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["20140328-1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"perltidy","binary_version":"20140328-1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10374.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"low"}]}