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CVE-2017-16762

• 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: yes
• Published: 2017-11-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Sanic before 0.5.1 allows reading arbitrary files with directory traversal, as demonstrated by the /static/..%2f substring.

Affected products

• sanic-org sanic: through 0.5.0

References

• https://github.com/channelcat/sanic/issues/633
• https://github.com/channelcat/sanic/releases/tag/0.5.1
• https://github.com/channelcat/sanic/issues/633
• https://github.com/channelcat/sanic/releases/tag/0.5.1

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