CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-31163
8.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-07-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22, CWE-23
Description
TZInfo is a Ruby library that provides access to time zone data and allows times to be converted using time zone rules. Versions prior to 0.36.1, as well as those prior to 1.2.10 when used with the Ruby data source tzinfo-data, are vulnerable to relative path traversal. With the Ruby data source, time zones are defined in Ruby files. There is one file per time zone. Time zone files are loaded with `require` on demand. In the affected versions, `TZInfo::Timezone.get` fails to validate time zone identifiers correctly, allowing a new line character within the identifier. With Ruby version 1.9.3 and later, `TZInfo::Timezone.get` can be made to load unintended files with `require`, executing them within the Ruby process. Versions 0.3.61 and 1.2.10 include fixes to correctly validate time zone identifiers. Versions 2.0.0 and later are not vulnerable. Version 0.3.61 can still load arbitrary files from the Ruby load path if their name follows the rules for a valid time zone identifier and the file has a prefix of `tzinfo/definition` within a directory in the load path. Applications should ensure that untrusted files are not placed in a directory on the load path. As a workaround, the time zone identifier can be validated before passing to `TZInfo::Timezone.get` by ensuring it matches the regular expression `\A[A-Za-z0-9+\-_]+(?:\/[A-Za-z0-9+\-_]+)*\z`.
Affected configurations
• tzinfo project tzinfo (< 0.3.61)
• tzinfo project tzinfo (>= 1.0.0 < 1.2.10)
• debian debian linux 10.0
Related
References
- https://github.com/tzinfo/tzinfo/commit/9905ca93abf7bf3e387bd592406e403cd18334c7 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tzinfo/tzinfo/commit/9eddbb5c0e682736f61d0dd803b6031a5db9eadf Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tzinfo/tzinfo/releases/tag/v0.3.61 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tzinfo/tzinfo/releases/tag/v1.2.10 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tzinfo/tzinfo/security/advisories/GHSA-5cm2-9h8c-rvfx Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00009.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tzinfo/tzinfo/commit/9905ca93abf7bf3e387bd592406e403cd18334c7 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tzinfo/tzinfo/commit/9eddbb5c0e682736f61d0dd803b6031a5db9eadf Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tzinfo/tzinfo/releases/tag/v0.3.61 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tzinfo/tzinfo/releases/tag/v1.2.10 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tzinfo/tzinfo/security/advisories/GHSA-5cm2-9h8c-rvfx Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00009.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00008.html lists.debian.org