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MEDIUM5.3

GHSA-7mqq-6cf9-v2qp

Rack has a root directory disclosure via unescaped regex interpolation in Rack::Directory

Quick fix

GHSA-7mqq-6cf9-v2qp — rack: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

bundle update rack

Details

## Summary

`Rack::Directory` interpolates the configured `root` path directly into a regular expression when deriving the displayed directory path. If `root` contains regex metacharacters such as `+`, `*`, or `.`, the prefix stripping can fail and the generated directory listing may expose the full filesystem path in the HTML output.

## Details

`Rack::Directory::DirectoryBody#each` computes the visible path using code equivalent to:

```ruby show_path = Utils.escape_html(path.sub(/\A#{root}/, '')) ```

Here, `root` is a developer-configured filesystem path. It is normalized earlier with `File.expand_path(root)` and then inserted directly into a regular expression without escaping.

Because the value is treated as regex syntax rather than as a literal string, metacharacters in the configured path can change how the prefix match behaves. When that happens, the expected root prefix is not removed from `path`, and the absolute filesystem path is rendered into the HTML directory listing.

## Impact

If `Rack::Directory` is configured to serve a directory whose absolute path contains regex metacharacters, the generated directory listing may disclose the full server filesystem path instead of only the request-relative path.

This can expose internal deployment details such as directory layout, usernames, mount points, or naming conventions that would otherwise not be visible to clients.

## Mitigation

* Update to a patched version of Rack in which the root prefix is removed using an escaped regular expression. * Avoid using `Rack::Directory` with a root path that contains regular expression metacharacters.

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Affected packages

RubyGems/rack
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 2.2.23
Fixbundle update rack
RubyGems/rack
Introduced in: 3.0.0.beta1Fixed in: 3.1.21
Fixbundle update rack
RubyGems/rack
Introduced in: 3.2.0Fixed in: 3.2.6
Fixbundle update rack

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