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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-93709 EUVD-2026-84255GHSA-8fpv-59mj-6jfr

Dancer2 versions before 2.2.0 for Perl serve a layout as a page when an equivalent spelling of its path misses the guard in the AutoPage handler

Published Sep 22, 2026 · Updated Sep 23, 2026 · Assigned by CPANSec

Description

Dancer2 versions before 2.2.0 for Perl serve a layout as a page when an equivalent spelling of its path misses the guard in the AutoPage handler.

The handler compares the request path against the layout directory name as text, while the lookup that follows canonicalises it. A doubled slash, a dot segment, a percent-encoded slash, or a different capitalisation on a case-insensitive filesystem therefore misses the guard.

The handler is off by default, enabled with auto_page. The layout wrapping every page is already public, so this discloses one of the application's other layouts.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— Dancer2 < 2.2.0 2.2.0

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 libdancer2-perl 2.2.2-1 —
Debian 13 libdancer2-perl No fix yet —
Debian 12 libdancer2-perl No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 libdancer2-perl No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS libdancer2-perl No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS libdancer2-perl No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS libdancer2-perl No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS libdancer2-perl No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS libdancer2-perl No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS libdancer2-perl No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed perl-Dancer2 2.2.2-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:12202-1

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