CVE-2022-45442 (GCVE-0-2022-45442)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-11-28 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-04 16:09
VLAI
Title
Sinatra vulnerable to Reflected File Download attack
Summary
Sinatra is a domain-specific language for creating web applications in Ruby. An issue was discovered in Sinatra 2.0 before 2.2.3 and 3.0 before 3.0.4. An application is vulnerable to a reflected file download (RFD) attack that sets the Content-Disposition header of a response when the filename is derived from user-supplied input. Version 2.2.3 and 3.0.4 contain patches for this issue.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-494 - Download of Code Without Integrity Check
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
sinatra sinatra Affected: >= 3.0, < 3.0.4
Affected: >= 2.0, < 2.2.3
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