{"id":"CVE-2017-16248","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-16248","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T22:18:55.858Z","title":"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…","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.","published":"2017-11-01T01:29:01.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:09:02.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-200"],"affected":["catalyst-plugin-static-simple project/catalyst-plugin-static-simple"],"epss":{"score":0.02434,"percentile":0.84177,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.43%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://bugs.debian.org/880458","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://metacpan.org/changes/distribution/Catalyst-Plugin-Static-Simple","tags":["Release Notes"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=120558","tags":["Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://bugs.debian.org/880458","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://metacpan.org/changes/distribution/Catalyst-Plugin-Static-Simple","tags":["Release Notes"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=120558","tags":["Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16248","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}