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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4918-1 ruby-rack-cors -- security update

Date Reported:

18 May 2021

Affected Packages:

ruby-rack-cors

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 944849.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-18978.

More information:

Improper pathname handling in ruby-rack-cors, a middleware that makes Rack-based apps CORS compatible, may result in access to private resources.

For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.2-1+deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ruby-rack-cors packages.

For the detailed security status of ruby-rack-cors please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/ruby-rack-cors