EGOR Data::SortedSet::Shared up to 0.02 sortedset.h path toctou

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A vulnerability has been found in EGOR Data::SortedSet::Shared up to 0.02 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file sortedset.h. The manipulation of the argument path leads to toctou. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-65062. The attack needs to be performed locally. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in EGOR Data::SortedSet::Shared up to 0.02. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown part of the file sortedset.h. The manipulation of the argument path with an unknown input leads to a toctou vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-367. The product checks the state of a resource before using that resource, but the resource's state can change between the check and the use in a way that invalidates the results of the check. This can cause the product to perform invalid actions when the resource is in an unexpected state. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Data::SortedSet::Shared versions before 0.03 for Perl create a world-readable mmap backing file and open it without O_EXCL or O_NOFOLLOW. The segment is created in sortedset.h with open(path, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0666). The mode is 0666, so under the default umask 022 the file is created mode 0644 (world-readable). O_NOFOLLOW is absent, so a symlink planted at the path is followed, and O_EXCL is absent, so the open silently uses a pre-planted file instead of failing. A "Shared" segment naturally lives in a shared directory such as /tmp or /dev/shm, where any local user can read the IPC payloads stored in the world-readable segment, and a pre-planted file or symlink at the path lets a local attacker win a pre-creation race or redirect the open.

The advisory is shared at metacpan.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-65062 since 07/21/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available.

Upgrading to version 0.03 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Programming Language Software

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• EGOR

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• Data::SortedSet::Shared

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• 0.02

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