We recently discovered a serious security vulnerability in the Racket web server, which can lead to unintended disclosure of files on the machine running the web server. This vulnerability is fixed in Racket version 6.4, just released, and we encourage people to upgrade to that version.
The vulnerability affects web servers that serve static files using the `#:extra-static-files` option, including the default value of this option. If you do not use the Racket web serve to serve static files, or you do so via a mechanism that does not use the `make-url->path` function, then you are likely not vulnerable. Affected web serves will allow specially-crafted URLs to access files outside of the specified paths, potentially exposing any file that the web server process is able to read. If you cannot immediately upgrade to version 6.4, we have provided a package catalog with updated versions of the "web-server-lib" package for versions of Racket back to 6.0. That catalog is located at http://download.racket-lang.org/patches/web-server-1/ To use it to upgrade your Racket installation, add it as a catalog using `raco pkg config`. To make this process easier, you can download the Racket script available at https://gist.github.com/samth/c81e1e2fabc744759970. Then run: $ racket add-catalog.rkt $ raco pkg update -i web-server-lib On some systems, this may need to be run with administrator or super-user privileges, if Racket was installed with those privileges. If you need advice on updating Racket installations older than version 6.0, please let us know and we will provide them. To test that your Racket installation is fixed, you can run the program here: https://gist.github.com/samth/740cc39eb6c0d9bd7bc3 Thanks to Rob Henderson for the discovery of this issue. Sam, for the Racket team -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.