Arbitrary File Disclosure Affecting rack package, versions <1.4.5>=1.5, <1.5.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.56% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-RACK-20058
  • published6 Feb 2013
  • disclosed6 Feb 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Feb 2013

CVE-2013-0262  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

rack is a minimal, modular and adaptable interface for developing web applications in Ruby.

Affected versions of this Gem are vulnerable to Arbitrary File Disclosure. Rack contains a flaw as the Rack::File function creates temporary files insecurely. It is possible for a local attacker to use a symlink attack to traverse to an arbitrary file and disclose its contents

CVSS Scores

version 3.1