EDB-792

functional

Setuid perl - 'PerlIO_Debug()' Root Owned File Creation Privilege Escalation

view exploit source exploit_dbverifiedtype localauthor Kevin Finisterrepublished 2005-02-07catalog exploit_db

exploited CVEs (1)

Known CVEs related to this entry.

ID	severity	EPSS	exploitable	published
CVE-2005-0155US	medium4.6OT elevated	1.20% (68th)	Exploit	2005-05-02
The PerlIO implementation in Perl 5.8.0, when installed with setuid support (sperl), allows local users to create arbitrary files via the PERLIO_DEBUG variable.

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