CVE-2026-17435

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-17435

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-17435.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-17435

Aliases

GHSA-fpmm-8f6h-wv74

Published

2026-08-07T19:03:48.138Z

Modified

2026-08-09T03:45:50.859909819Z

Summary

File::Rotate::Simple versions before 0.4.0 for Perl create the target of dangling symlinks when rotating files

Details

File::Rotate::Simple versions before 0.4.0 for Perl create the target of dangling symlinks when rotating files.

When the file to be rotated is a symbolic link to a missing file, and the touch option is enabled, then the rotate method assumes that the file is absent (since the existence check is against the target), and does not rotate it. But it touches the file, which creates the target.

An attacker that has the ability to create the symlink can use this to create an arbitrary file with permissions of the process rotating the files (which may be different from the process that normally writes to the log file that is being rotated).

Note that the touch option is disabled by default.

Database specific

{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-59"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/17xxx/CVE-2026-17435.json",
    "cna_assigner": "CPANSec"
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/robrwo/file-rotate-simple

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/robrwo/file-rotate-simple

Events

Introduced

Fixed

1a3a252c3c3756d461f015cd94a54a1a82ab60dd

Fixed

ead3f5c0e51217b34d286aa243949dba60b39eba

Database specific

Show details

{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "0.4.0"
        }
    ],
    "source": [
        "DESCRIPTION",
        "REFERENCES"
    ]
}

Affected versions

v0.*

v0.1.1

v0.1.2

v0.1.3

v0.2.0

v0.2.1

v0.2.2

v0.2.3

v0.2.4

v0.2.5

v0.3.0

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-17435.json"