Directory Traversal Affecting rubygems package, versions <0:2.0.14.1-36.el7


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.37% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-RUBYGEMS-7968234
  • published14 Sept 2024
  • 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 RHEL:7 rubygems to version 0:2.0.14.1-36.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2019:2028.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rubygems package and not the rubygems package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL: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.