Symlink Attack The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package rubyzip/rubyzip  (opens in a new tab)


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EPSS
4.41% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-RUBYZIPRUBYZIP-2368648
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 Jun 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-1000544  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-434  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack rubyzip gem rubyzip version 1.2.1 and earlier contains a Directory Traversal vulnerability in Zip::File component that can result in write arbitrary files to the filesystem. This attack appear to be exploitable via If a site allows uploading of .zip files , an attacker can upload a malicious file that contains symlinks or files with absolute pathnames "../" to write arbitrary files to the filesystem..

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