CVE-2018-7212

rubygem-sinatra: path traversal via backslash characters

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

5.3

CVSS 3.1

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Published · February 18, 2018

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

A flaw was discovered in rack-protection/lib/rack/protection/path_traversal.rb in Sinatra version 2.x before 2.0.1 on Windows. This flaw allows for path traversal on the system that contains backslash characters in the path. This flaw only affects Sinatra on Windows, Linux platforms are not affected.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')