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Directory Traversal The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ruby193-rubygems.src  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-RUBY193RUBYGEMSSRC-14922785
  • published14 Jan 2026
  • disclosed15 Feb 2018
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Introduced: 15 Feb 2018

CVE-2018-1000073  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby193-rubygems.src package and not the ruby193-rubygems.src package as distributed by RHEL.

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.

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