CVE-2018-1000073

Description

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 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.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4259

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4219

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3621-1/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00028.html

https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/commit/1b931fc03b819b9a0214be3eaca844ef534175e2

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0663

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0591

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0542

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2028

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3731

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3730

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3729

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00036.html

http://blog.rubygems.org/2018/02/15/2.7.6-released.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3