Security Advisories (1)
CVE-2025-40909 (2025-05-30)

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 that handle for the new thread, which is visible from any third (or more) thread already running. This may lead to unintended operations such as loading code or accessing files from unexpected locations, which a local attacker may be able to exploit. The bug was introduced in commit 11a11ecf4bea72b17d250cfb43c897be1341861e and released in Perl version 5.13.6

NAME

Simple - It's easy.

AUTHOR

Símple Simon

You can find me on the IRC channel #simon on irc.perl.org.

our $VERSION = '999';

Hello, this is pod.

NAME

Simple - It's easy.

AUTHOR

Simple Simon

2 POD Errors

The following errors were encountered while parsing the POD:

Around line 303:

Unknown directive: =YES

Around line 311:

=cut found outside a pod block. Skipping to next block.