CVE-2019-18978

MEDIUM

Rack CORS Middleware <1.0.4 - Path Traversal

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in the rack-cors (aka Rack CORS Middleware) gem before 1.0.4 for Ruby. It allows ../ directory traversal to access private resources because resource matching does not ensure that pathnames are in a canonical format.

References (6)

Core 6
Core References
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/cyu/rack-cors/compare/v1.0.3...v1.0.4
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00004.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00000.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4571-1/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4918

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0102
EPSS Percentile 77.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-22
Status published
Products (6)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
debian/debian_linux 10.0
rack-cors_project/rack-cors < 1.0.4
rubygems/rack-cors 0 - 1.0.4RubyGems
Published Nov 14, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026