CVE-2015-8607

perl-PathTools: Taint propagation flaw in canonpath()

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.3

CVSS 2.0

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Published · January 11, 2016

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

The canonpath function in the File::Spec module in PathTools before 3.62, as used in Perl, does not properly preserve the taint attribute of data, which might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism via a crafted string.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CWE not specified