CVE-2008-1652

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-04-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the _serve_request_multiple function in lib/Perlbal/ClientHTTPBase.pm in Perlbal before 1.70, when concat get is enabled, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files in a parent directory via a directory traversal sequence in an unspecified parameter. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

Perlbal: through 1.60

References

http://search.cpan.org/src/BRADFITZ/Perlbal-1.70/CHANGES
http://secunia.com/advisories/29565
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1045/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41540
http://search.cpan.org/src/BRADFITZ/Perlbal-1.70/CHANGES
http://secunia.com/advisories/29565
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1045/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41540

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