{"id":63997,"date":"2025-05-30T18:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T15:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-40909-perl-threads-directory-handle-race-condition-vulnerability\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T18:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T15:02:11","slug":"cve-2025-40909-perl-threads-directory-handle-race-condition-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-40909-perl-threads-directory-handle-race-condition-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-40909 &#8211; &#8220;Perl threads Directory Handle Race Condition Vulnerability&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CVE ID : <\/strong>CVE-2025-40909<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Published : <\/strong> May 30, 2025, 1:15 p.m. | 44\u00a0minutes ago<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Description : <\/strong>Perl threads have a working directory race condition where file operations may target unintended paths.<\/p>\n<p>If a directory handle is open at thread creation, the process-wide current working directory is temporarily changed in order to clone\u00a0that handle for the new thread, which is visible from any third (or\u00a0more) thread already running. <\/p>\n<p>This may lead to unintended operations\u00a0such as loading code or accessing files from unexpected locations,\u00a0which a local attacker may be able to exploit.<\/p>\n<p>The bug was introduced in commit\u00a011a11ecf4bea72b17d250cfb43c897be1341861e and released in Perl version 5.13.6<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Severity:<\/strong> 0.0 | NA<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVisit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-40909 Published : May 30, 2025, 1:15 p.m. | 44\u00a0minutes ago Description : Perl threads have a working directory race condition where file operations may target unintended paths. If a directory handle is open at thread creation, the process-wide current working directory is temporarily changed in order to clone\u00a0that handle for the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}