CVE-2013-0262

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-02-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

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 products

Rack Project Rack: 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 1.4.4, 1.5.0 (+1)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00048.html
http://rack.github.com/
http://secunia.com/advisories/52033
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=909071
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=909072
https://gist.github.com/rentzsch/4736940
https://github.com/rack/rack/blob/master/lib/rack/file.rb#L56
https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/6f237e4c9fab649d3750482514f0fde76c56ab30
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21msg/rack-devel/bf937jPZxJM/1s6x95vIhmAJ
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21msg/rack-devel/mZsuRonD7G8/DpZIOmMLbOgJ
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00048.html
http://rack.github.com/

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