CVE-2013-0262
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 2.9%EU EUVD
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."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-22
- EPSS score
- 2.9% (87th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2017-0190)
- Published
- February 8, 2013
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2017-0190 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- rack project / rack
- rack project / rack
- rack project / rack
- rack project / rack
- rack project / rack
- rack project / rack
- rack project / rack
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00048.html
- http://rack.github.com/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52033(Vendor Advisory)
- 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
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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