CVE-2014-5269

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-09-04 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Plack::App::File in Plack before 1.0031 removes trailing slash characters from paths, which allows remote attackers to bypass the whitelist of generated files and obtain sensitive information via a crafted path, related to Plack::Middleware::Static.

Affected products

Plack Project Plack: through 1.0030

References

http://api.metacpan.org/source/MIYAGAWA/Plack-1.0031/Changes
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/137099.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/137115.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/384
http://www.osvdb.org/109928
https://github.com/avar/Plack/commit/bc1731dbb53850c380875ad683cd87c8ec99eee3
https://github.com/plack/Plack/issues/405
http://api.metacpan.org/source/MIYAGAWA/Plack-1.0031/Changes
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/137099.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/137115.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/384
http://www.osvdb.org/109928

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