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CVE record · CVE-2026-78189

WebDyne versions from 3.007 before 3.022 for Perl execute .psp files outside the document root via path traversal in the PSGI API route fallback

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0025 · 16th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: CPANSec) at 31 Oct 2026, 14:33 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Not given Not given Package name: WebDyne https://cpan.org/modules pkg:cpan/WebDyne
  • affected 3.007 to before 3.022 custom
Other versions: unaffected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-78189
CNA
CPANSec
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-22
Tags
Published
31 Oct 2026
Updated
31 Oct 2026

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

WebDyne versions from 3.007 before 3.022 for Perl are affected. A remote attacker can use path traversal in the PSGI API route fallback to run the embedded Perl in any .psp file the server can read, including files outside the document root. Upgrade WebDyne to version 3.022 or later. The source gives no workaround.

Written 5 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0025, the 16th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 14:33 UTC Confirmed by the CVE List
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 14:39 UTC First seen by agentprime
  3. 31 Oct 2026, 15:16 UTC Confirmed by NVD

Sources

References from the CNA

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