GHSA-rprj-g6xc-p5gq

Wicked gem contains Path traversal vulnerability

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2013-4413

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
RubyGems	wicked	< 1.0.1	1.0.1

Details

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

The Wicked gem prior to v1.0.1 allows a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system via a vulnerability in `controller/concerns/render_redirect.rb`. An attacker can send a specially-crafted URL request containing `%2E%2E%2F` directory traversal sequences to read arbitrary files on the system.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4413 advisory
https://github.com/schneems/wicked/commit/fe31bb2533fffc9d098c69ebeb7afc3b80509f53 web
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/87783 web
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rprj-g6xc-p5gq advisory
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/wicked/CVE-2013-4413.yml web
https://github.com/schneems/wicked package
https://web.archive.org/web/20210508170740/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62891 web
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/43 web