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Wicked gem contains Path traversal vulnerability

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 24, 2017 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 13, 2025

Package

bundler wicked (RubyGems)

Affected versions

< 1.0.1

Patched versions

1.0.1

Description

The Wicked gem prior to v1.0.1 allows a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system via a vulnerability in controller/concerns/render_redirect.rb. An attacker can send a specially-crafted URL request containing %2E%2E%2F directory traversal sequences to read arbitrary files on the system.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 11, 2014
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 24, 2017
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Apr 13, 2025

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(78th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2013-4413

GHSA ID

GHSA-rprj-g6xc-p5gq

Source code

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