{"cve":"CVE-2017-16248","nvd":{"published":"2017-11-01T01:29:01.010","modified":"2026-06-17T01:09:02.120","status":"Modified","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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.0","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","score":7.5},"cwes":["CWE-200"],"references":["https://bugs.debian.org/880458","https://metacpan.org/changes/distribution/Catalyst-Plugin-Static-Simple","https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=120558","https://bugs.debian.org/880458","https://metacpan.org/changes/distribution/Catalyst-Plugin-Static-Simple"],"products":["catalyst-plugin-static-simple_project:catalyst-plugin-static-simple"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T20:47:01.408438353+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2017-16248","score":0.02434,"percentile":0.84268,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}