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Permissive Regular Expression

CVE-2026-34830

Severity High
Score 7.5/10

Summary

Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface. Prior to versions 2.2.23, 3.x prior to 3.1.21, and 3.2.x prior to 3.2.6, "Rack::Sendfile#map_accel_path" interpolates the value of the X-Accel-Mapping request header directly into a regular expression when rewriting file paths for X-Accel-Redirect. Because the header value is not escaped, an attacker who can supply X-Accel-Mapping to the backend can inject regex metacharacters and control the generated X-Accel-Redirect response header. In deployments using Rack::Sendfile with x-accel-redirect, this can allow an attacker to cause nginx to serve unintended files from configured internal locations. This issue has been patched in versions 2.2.23, 3.1.21, and 3.2.6.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-625 - Permissive Regular Expression

The product uses a regular expression that does not sufficiently restrict the set of allowed values.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published