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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-17435"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-07T19:03:48.138Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-11T20:12:53.926Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:55.771Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-17435"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-17435.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-17435"
title: "File::Rotate::Simple versions before 0.4.0 for Perl create the target of dangling symlinks when rotating files"
summary: "File::Rotate::Simple versions before 0.4.0 for Perl create the target of dangling symlinks when rotating files.\n\nWhen 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 against the target), and does not rotate it. But it touches the file, which creates the target.\n\nAn attacker that has the ability to create the symlink can use this to create an arbitrary file with permissions of the process rotating the files (which may be different from the process that normally writes to the log file that is being rotated).\n\nNote that the touch option is disabled by default."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"0.4.0"}],"vendor":"RRWO","product":"File::Rotate::Simple","packageName":"File-Rotate-Simple","collectionURL":"https://cpan.org/modules","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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