High (7.5). EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Dancer2 versions from 2.1.0 before 2.2.0 for Perl serve files from outside public_dir via relative path segments in the File route handler.
The handler joins the request path onto public_dir without collapsing relative segments, and checks only that the result is a readable regular file. A request for `/../outside.txt` escapes public_dir, and percent-encoding the dots reaches the same file.
The handler is off by default. An application is affected once it names File in route_handlers and sets static_handler to 0, which otherwise refuses a dot segment before the route runs.
Any file the worker process can read is served to an unauthenticated request, including the application's config.yml above public_dir.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
7.5 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS
0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 45% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)