Name: CVE-2017-16248: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2017-11-01T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2017-16248, CWE-200, CVSS 7.5, EPSS 0.00318

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.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.0 Base Score: 7.5
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade libcatalyst-plugin-static-simple-perl	Jul 30, 2024	Nov 1, 2017
Ubuntu	—	No solution exists	Jun 26, 2025	Nov 1, 2017

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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