CVE-2013-0262
EPSS 1.3%Rack Vulnerable to Path Traversal
Published: 10/24/2017Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
rack/file.rb (Rack::File) in Rack 1.5.x before 1.5.2 and 1.4.x before 1.4.5 allows attackers to access arbitrary files outside the intended root directory via a crafted PATH_INFO environment variable, probably a directory traversal vulnerability that is remotely exploitable, aka "symlink path traversals."
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/ruby-rackfrom 0, < 1.4.1-2.1
- RubyGems/rack>= 1.5.0, < 1.5.2
References (12)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-0262
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-0262
- PATCHhttps://github.com/rack/rack
- WEBhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00048.html
- WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=909071
- WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=909072
- WEBhttps://gist.github.com/rentzsch/4736940
- WEBhttps://github.com/rack/rack/blob/master/lib/rack/file.rb#L56
- WEBhttps://github.com/rack/rack/commit/6f237e4c9fab649d3750482514f0fde76c56ab30
- WEBhttps://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rack/CVE-2013-0262.yml
- WEBhttps://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/rack-devel/bf937jPZxJM/1s6x95vIhmAJ
- WEBhttps://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/rack-devel/mZsuRonD7G8/DpZIOmMLbOgJ