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Status published
Medium
CVE-2019-18978
An issue was discovered in the rack-cors (aka Rack CORS...
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- https://github.com/cyu/rack-cors/commit/e4d4fc362a4315808927011cbe5afcfe5486f17d
- https://github.com/cyu/rack-cors/compare/v1.0.3...v1.0.4
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00004.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00000.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4571-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4918
More from rack-cors project
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rack-cors project
View all reports →Affected Software
rack-cors, debian linux, ubuntu linux
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 8.0, 9.0, 10.0, 16.04
Timeline
Official Publish:
November 14th, 2019
Last Modified:
August 5th, 2024
Added to House:
July 20th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.