Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in perl-plack - CVE-2014-5269

 

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in perl-plack - CVE-2014-5269

Published: September 4, 2014 / Updated: August 5, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU34000
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-5269
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

Plack::App::File in Plack before 1.0031 removes trailing slash characters from paths, which allows remote attackers to bypass the whitelist of generated files and obtain sensitive information via a crafted path, related to Plack::Middleware::Static.


Affected software

perl-plack
perl-plack (Alpine package)

How to mitigate CVE-2014-5269

Install update from vendor's website.

perl-plack - update to 1.0031
perl-plack (Alpine package) - update to 1.0031-r0

External References

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