CVE-2026-17435

File::Rotate::Simple versions before 0.4.0 for Perl create the target of dangling symlinks when rotating files. When the file to be rotated is a symbolic link to a missing file, and the touch option is enabled, then the rotate method assumes that the file is absent since the existence check is...

EUVD-2026-54602

File::Rotate::Simple versions before 0.4.0 for Perl create the target of dangling symlinks when rotating files. When the file to be rotated is a symbolic link to a missing file, and the touch option is enabled, then the rotate method assumes that the file is absent since the existence check is...

CVE-2026-17435 File::Rotate::Simple versions before 0.4.0 for Perl create the target of dangling symlinks when rotating files

File::Rotate::Simple versions before 0.4.0 for Perl create the target of dangling symlinks when rotating files. When the file to be rotated is a symbolic link to a missing file, and the touch option is enabled, then the rotate method assumes that the file is absent since the existence check is...

CVE-2026-17435

CVE-2026-17435 affects the Perl module File::Rotate::Simple prior to version 0.4.0. When rotating a file that is a symbolic link to a missing file and the touch option is enabled, the rotate method treats the target as present (due to the existence check on the target) and does not rotate it, but...