CVE-2022-31163

Summary

CVECVE-2022-31163
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-07-22 04:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-10-26 19:00:00 UTC
DescriptionTZInfo 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`.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-22 | CWE-23

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Application Tzinfo Project Tzinfo All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Fix relative path loading tests. · tzinfo/tzinfo@ca29f34 · GitHub MISC github.com
Release v0.3.61 · tzinfo/tzinfo · GitHub MISC github.com
Release v1.2.10 · tzinfo/tzinfo · GitHub MISC github.com
Relative path traversal vulnerability allows TZInfo::Timezone.get to load arbitrary files · Advisory · tzinfo/tzinfo · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
Fix directory traversal in Timezone.get · tzinfo/tzinfo@9eddbb5 · GitHub MISC github.com
Fix directory traversal in Timezone.get when using Ruby data source · tzinfo/tzinfo@9905ca9 · GitHub MISC github.com
[SECURITY] [DLA 3077-1] ruby-tzinfo security update MLIST lists.debian.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 180980 Debian Security Update for ruby-tzinfo (DLA 3077-1)
  • 184807 Debian Security Update for ruby-tzinfo (CVE-2022-31163)
  • 240796 Red Hat Update for Satellite 6.11.4 (RHSA-2022:7242)
  • 241405 Red Hat Update for Satellite 6.13 (RHSA-2023:2097)
  • 753387 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for rubygem-tzinfo (SUSE-SU-2022:2592-1)
  • 960924 Rocky Linux Security Update for Satellite (RLSA-2023:2097)
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