GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems
GHSA-vqcq-mrmw-mcmg Rubyzip gem contains a Directory Traversal vulnerability in zip file component
CRITICAL
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- Aliases
- CVE-2018-1000544
- Ecosystem
- RubyGems
- Packages
- rubyzip
- Severity
- Critical
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-434, CWE-59
- Reviewed
- 2020-06-16
Affected packages
• RubyGems rubyzip: < 1.2.2 → fixed in 1.2.2
Description
rubyzip gem rubyzip version 1.2.1 and earlier contains a Directory Traversal vulnerability in Zip::File component that can result in write arbitrary files to the filesystem. This attack appear to be exploitable via If a site allows uploading of .zip files , an attacker can upload a malicious file that contains symlinks or files with absolute pathnames "../" to write arbitrary files to the filesystem..
This is similar to CVE-2017-5946 which was patched in 1.2.1 but the fix in that case was incomplete.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2018-1000544 rubyzip gem rubyzip version 1.2.1 and earlier contains a Directory Traversal vulnerability in Zip::File component that can result in write… vulnerability
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000544 advisory
- https://github.com/rubyzip/rubyzip/issues/369 web
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3466 web
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rubyzip/CVE-2018-1000544.yml web
- https://github.com/rubyzip/rubyzip package
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00013.html web
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00002.html web