Directory Traversal Affecting ruby-sinatra package, versions <1.4.7-3ubuntu0.1~esm2


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.14% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-RUBYSINATRA-10873289
  • published23 Jul 2025
  • disclosed2 May 2022

Introduced: 2 May 2022

CVE-2022-29970  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04 ruby-sinatra to version 1.4.7-3ubuntu0.1~esm2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby-sinatra package and not the ruby-sinatra package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

Sinatra before 2.2.0 does not validate that the expanded path matches public_dir when serving static files.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1