Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libplack-perl (opens in a new tab)
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- published4 Sept 2014
- disclosed4 Sept 2014
Introduced: 4 Sep 2014
CVE-2014-5269 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:17.10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libplack-perl package and not the libplack-perl package as distributed by Ubuntu.
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.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-5269
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-5269
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/137099.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/137115.html
- https://github.com/avar/Plack/commit/bc1731dbb53850c380875ad683cd87c8ec99eee3
- https://github.com/plack/Plack/issues/405
- http://api.metacpan.org/source/MIYAGAWA/Plack-1.0031/Changes
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/384
- http://www.osvdb.org/109928