Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability in Catalyst-Plugin-Static-Simple Module

CVE-2017-16248 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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.

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