CVE-2008-1652

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2008-1652 · Published 02/04/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-1652 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting perlbal (perlbal).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.5%, higher than 75.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
perlbal perlbal	`≤ 1.60`	No fix yet

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the _serve_request_multiple function in lib/Perlbal/ClientHTTPBase.pm in Perlbal before 1.70, when concat get is enabled, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files in a parent directory via a directory traversal sequence in an unspecified parameter. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

References

search.cpan.org/src/BRADFITZ/Perlbal-1.70/CHANGES
secunia.com/advisories/29565 · Vendor Advisory
vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1045/references
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41540

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