Directory Traversal The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ruby2.5-doc-ri  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-RUBY25DOCRI-2745536
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed10 Jul 2019

Introduced: 10 Jul 2019

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

Amendment

The SLES security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for SLES:15.0.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby2.5-doc-ri package and not the ruby2.5-doc-ri package as distributed by SLES.

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.