MGASA-2026-0149 Updated perl-WWW-Mechanize-Cached, perl-File-XDG & perl-Path-Tiny packages fix security vulnerabilities

WWW::Mechanize::Cached versions before 2.00 for Perl deserialize cached HTTP responses from a world-writable on-disk cache, enabling local response forgery and code execution...

CVE-2026-8612

WWW::Mechanize::Cached versions before 2.00 for Perl deserialize cached HTTP responses from a world-writable on-disk cache, enabling local response forgery and code execution. With no explicit cache backend, WWW::Mechanize::Cached constructs a default Cache::FileCache under /tmp/FileCache without...

Mozilla Firefox < 51.0.3

The version of Firefox installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 51.0.3. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the mfsa2017-04 advisory. - The cache directory on the local file system is set to be world writable. Firefox defaults to extracting libraries from this...