CVE-2017-16248

high

Description

The Catalyst-Plugin-Static-Simple module before 0.34 for Perl allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files if there is a '.' character anywhere in the pathname, which differs from the intended policy of allowing access only when the filename itself has a '.' character.

References

https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=120558

https://metacpan.org/changes/distribution/Catalyst-Plugin-Static-Simple

https://bugs.debian.org/880458

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-11-01

Updated: 2017-11-22

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: High