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CVE-2017-16248

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-11-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

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.

Affected products

• Catalyst-Plugin-Static-Simple Project Catalyst-Plugin-Static-Simple: before 0.34 — fixed in 0.34

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Catalyst-Plugin-Static-Simple Project Catalyst-Plugin-Static-Simple 0.34. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://bugs.debian.org/880458
• https://metacpan.org/changes/distribution/Catalyst-Plugin-Static-Simple
• https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=120558
• https://bugs.debian.org/880458
• https://metacpan.org/changes/distribution/Catalyst-Plugin-Static-Simple
• https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=120558

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