CRITICAL 9.8 RubyGems
Directory traversal vulnerability in RubyZip
GHSA-gcqq-w6gr-h9j9 · CVE-2017-5946
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Description
The Zip::File component in the rubyzip gem before 1.2.1 for Ruby has a directory traversal vulnerability. If a site allows uploading of .zip files, an attacker can upload a malicious file that uses ../ pathname substrings to write arbitrary files to the filesystem.
References
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5946
- WEB https://github.com/rubyzip/rubyzip/issues/315
- WEB https://github.com/rubyzip/rubyzip/commit/ce4208fdecc2ad079b05d3c49d70fe6ed1d07016
- WEB https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rubyzip/CVE-2017-5946.yml
- PACKAGE https://github.com/rubyzip/rubyzip
- WEB https://github.com/rubyzip/rubyzip/releases
- WEB https://web.archive.org/web/20200227185727/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96445
- WEB http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3801
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