Description
Plack::Middleware::XSendfile versions through 1.0053 for Perl can allow client-controlled path rewriting. Plack::Middleware::XSendfile allows the variation setting (sendfile type) to be set by the client via the X-Sendfile-Type header, if it is not considered in the middleware constructor or the Plack environment. A malicious client can set the X-Sendfile-Type header to "X-Accel-Redirect" to services running behind nginx reverse proxies, and then set the X-Accel-Mapping to map the path to an arbitrary file on the server. Since 1.0053, Plack::Middleware::XSendfile is deprecated and will be removed from future releases of Plack. This is similar to CVE-2025-61780 for Rack::Sendfile, although Plack::Middleware::XSendfile has some mitigations that disallow regular expressions to be used in the mapping, and only apply the mapping for the "X-Accel-Redirect" type.
Affected products
miyagawa: plack\
References3
- metacpan.org/release/MIYAGAWA/Plack-1.0053/changes Release Notes
- metacpan.org/release/MIYAGAWA/Plack-1.0053/view/lib/Plack/Middl… Product
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-61780 US Government Resource
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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9.1
CRITICAL
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 39 · as of 13 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-200CWE-441CWE-913
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