Medium severity · published Feb 18, 2018
CVE-2018-7212
An issue was discovered in rack-protection/lib/rack/protection/path_traversal.rb in Sinatra 2.x before 2.0.1 on Windows
5.3
CVSS
1.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in rack-protection/lib/rack/protection/path_traversal.rb in Sinatra 2.x before 2.0.1 on Windows. Path traversal is possible via backslash characters.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.8% · higher than 79% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SI
Sinatra · Sinatrarb
2.0.0; 2.0.0; 2.0.0; 2.0.0; 2.0.0; 2.0.0; +3 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-7212
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-7212
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/commit/6ad721abcfe36334108dcdd05d046c361e1b7a9c
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/pull/1379
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