CVE catalog

CVE-2016-10374

perltidy: CVE-2016-10374

[CVE catalog]

Severity
Medium
Published
Source
[NVD] · [CVE record]
EPSS
0.32% · Oct 22, 2026

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.

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.

DistributionPackageReleaseVersionStatus
Debianperltidysid20250105-1.1fixed
Debianperltidyforky20250105-1.1fixed
Debianperltidytrixie20250105-1fixed
Debianperltidybookworm20220613-1fixed
Ubuntuperltidy16.0420140328-1vulnerable

Fixed-version evidence

DistributionPackageTypeReleaseFixed versionUrgencyOriginBugs
Debianperltidysourcesid20140328-2not yet assignedNot reported[862667]
Debianperltidysourceforky20140328-2not yet assignedNot reported[862667]
Debianperltidysourcetrixie20140328-2not yet assignedNot reported[862667]
Debianperltidysourcebookworm20140328-2not yet assignedNot reported[862667]

[Debian bug #862667]

OpenFactory catalog packages

[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]

  • [perltidy]Fixed
    Details (2)

    • 20220613-1 · all · bookworm

      Fixed · Fixed: 20140328-2

      dsa · perltidy · debian · bookworm; dsa · perltidy · debian · 12

    • 20220613-1 · all · bookworm

      Fixed · Fixed: 20140328-2

      dsa · perltidy · debian · bookworm; dsa · perltidy · debian · 12

[Debian 13 (Trixie)]

  • [perltidy]Fixed
    Details (2)

    • 20250105-1 · all · trixie

      Fixed · Fixed: 20140328-2

      dsa · perltidy · debian · 13

    • 20250105-1 · all · trixie

      Fixed · Fixed: 20140328-2

      dsa · perltidy · debian · 13

Observed:

References

[Debian Security Tracker] · [FIRST EPSS] · [OSV Package Vulnerability Database]