# CVE-2026-7381: Plack::Middleware::XSendfile versions through 1.0053 for Perl can allow client-controlled path rewriting

- Severity: CVSS 9.1 (Critical), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-04-29 · Updated: 2026-04-30

## Affected

- Plack: through 1.0053

## 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.

## What to do

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## Related

- Browse: [Critical entries](https://cve.now/critical.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://metacpan.org/release/MIYAGAWA/Plack-1.0053/changes
- https://metacpan.org/release/MIYAGAWA/Plack-1.0053/view/lib/Plack/Middleware/XSendfile.pm#DEPRECATION-NOTICE
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-61780

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