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USN-8066-1: Rack vulnerabilities

Minh Pham Quang discovered that Rack did not correctly handle parsing certain paths, which could lead to a path traversal attack. An attacker could possibly use this issue to leak sensitive information. (CVE-2026-22860) Ali Firas discovered that Rack did not correctly sanitize certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2026-25500)

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