High
Security advisory
Sanic before 0.5.1 allows reading arbitrary files with directory traversal, as demonstrated by the /static/..%2f substring.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-16762
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:44 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Sanic before 0.5.1 allows reading arbitrary files with directory traversal, as demonstrated by the /static/..%2f substring.
osv:CVE-2017-16762
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:47:47.107954229Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://github.com/channelcat/sanic/releases/tag/0.5.1",
"https://github.com/channelcat/sanic/issues/633"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2017-11-10T09:29:00.33+00:00"
}