UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16248

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-16248
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16248.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16248
Upstream
Published
2017-11-01T01:29:00Z
Modified
2025-10-24T04:46:34Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / libcatalyst-plugin-static-simple-perl

Package

Name
libcatalyst-plugin-static-simple-perl
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/libcatalyst-plugin-static-simple-perl@0.33-1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*
0.33-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libcatalyst-plugin-static-simple-perl",
            "binary_version": "0.33-1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16248.json"