CVE-2013-0262: Rack Project Rack

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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: version 1.4.0 only; version 1.4.1 only; version 1.4.2 only; version 1.4.3 only; version 1.4.4 only; version 1.5.0 only; …

Published 2013-02-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.