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CVE-2025-30672

If an attacker can place a malicious file in current working directory, it may be loaded instead of the intended file, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution.

MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 0.42%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.42%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

Mite for Perl before 0.013000 generates code with the current working directory ('.') added to the @INC path similar to CVE-2016-1238. If an attacker can place a malicious file in current working directory, it may be loaded instead of the intended file, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution. This affects the Mite distribution itself, and other distributions that contain code generated by Mite.

CVSS 3.1: 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS: 0.42% probability · 36th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-427
Source: 9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.