Cross-user disclosure via forced public caching
Published Aug 20, 2026 · Updated Aug 20, 2026
Exposure of cached authenticated content in Catalyst::Plugin::Static::Simple through 0.38 lets remote attackers read cached user responses. In lib/Catalyst/Plugin/Static/Simple.pm, _serve_static unconditionally wrote Cache-Control: public and ignored an expires value of 0, so shared proxies were told to store and reuse responses that should have remained private or uncached. Exposure requires a deployment path with a shared intermediary cache and reachable static responses tied to one user's authenticated session; the published record describes cross-user disclosure, not response tampering or service interruption.
Summary
What happened
Exposure of cached authenticated content in Catalyst::Plugin::Static::Simple through 0.38 lets remote attackers read cached user responses. In lib/Catalyst/Plugin/Static/Simple.pm, _serve_static unconditionally wrote Cache-Control: public and ignored an expires value of 0, so shared proxies were told to store and reuse responses that should have remained private or uncached. Exposure requires a deployment path with a shared intermediary cache and reachable static responses tied to one user's authenticated session; the published record describes cross-user disclosure, not response tampering or service interruption.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-15743
- Published
- Aug 20, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 20, 2026
- Vendor
- Catalyst
- Product
- Catalyst::Plugin::Static::Simple
- Classifications
- CWE-524
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Aug 20, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 20, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <=0.38
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