Directory Traversal Affecting rubygem-psych package, versions <0:2.0.0-36.el7


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-RUBYGEMPSYCH-2136951
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed28 Mar 2018

Introduced: 28 Mar 2018

CVE-2018-6914  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:7 rubygem-psych to version 0:2.0.0-36.el7 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rubygem-psych package and not the rubygem-psych package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Dir.mktmpdir method in the tmpdir library in Ruby before 2.2.10, 2.3.x before 2.3.7, 2.4.x before 2.4.4, 2.5.x before 2.5.1, and 2.6.0-preview1 might allow attackers to create arbitrary directories or files via a .. (dot dot) in the prefix argument.