Directory Traversal in rubyzip
Published: June 14, 2018
SECURITY IDENTIFIERS
- CVE: CVE-2018-1000544 (NVD)
- GHSA: GHSA-vqcq-mrmw-mcmg
- Vendor Advisory: https://github.com/rubyzip/rubyzip/issues/369
GEM
SEVERITY
CVSS v3.x: 9.8 (Critical)
PATCHED VERSIONS
>= 1.2.2
DESCRIPTION
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. If a site allows uploading of .zip files, an attacker can upload a malicious file which contains symlinks or files with absolute pathnames "../" to write arbitrary files to the filesystem.
