CVE-2017-16248

high

Published 2017-11-01 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

7.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

83%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`0.34-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`0.34-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`0.34-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`0.34-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`0.34-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
catalyst-plugin-static-simple_project	catalyst-plugin-static-simple	`{"endExcluding":"0.34"}`	`0.34`

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.