CVE-2017-16248 (GCVE-0-2017-16248)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-11-01 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 20:20
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Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2017-10-31 00:00
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