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GHSA-8qxg-mff5-j3wc

RubyGems Path Traversal vulnerability

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2018-1000079

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
RubyGems rubygems-update < 2.7.6 2.7.6
Maven org.jruby:jruby-stdlib < 9.1.16.0 9.1.16.0

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

RubyGems version Ruby 2.2 series: 2.2.9 and earlier, Ruby 2.3 series: 2.3.6 and earlier, Ruby 2.4 series: 2.4.3 and earlier, Ruby 2.5 series: 2.5.0 and earlier, prior to trunk revision 62422 contains a Directory Traversal vulnerability in gem installation that can result in the gem writing to arbitrary filesystem locations during installation. This attack appears to be exploitable via installation of a malicious gem. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.7.6.

References

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