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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 27, 2012· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2012-2451

CVE-2012-2451

Description

The Config::IniFiles module before 2.71 for Perl creates temporary files with predictable names, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information. NOTE: it has been reported that this might only be exploitable by writing in the same directory as the .ini file. If this is the case, then this issue might not cross privilege boundaries.

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