CVE-2018-1000073

Summary

CVECVE-2018-1000073
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-03-13 15:29:00 UTC
Updated2020-08-24 17:37:00 UTC
DescriptionRubyGems 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 install_location function of package.rb that can result in path traversal when writing to a symlinked basedir outside of the root. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.7.6.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-59

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Rubygems Rubygems All All All All
Application Rubygems Rubygems All All All All
Application Rubygems Rubygems All All All All
Application Rubygems Rubygems All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
2.7.6 Released - RubyGems Blog MISC blog.rubygems.org Vendor Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
Non-working patch for deducing symlinked base-dirs · rubygems/rubygems@1b931fc · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4219-1 jruby DEBIAN www.debian.org
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
[SECURITY] [DLA 1480-1] ruby2.1 security update MLIST lists.debian.org
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
USN-3621-1: Ruby vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:1771-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4259-1 ruby2.3 DEBIAN www.debian.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 377477 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for ruby (ALINUX2-SA-2019:0111)
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