CVE-2018-6914 — Path Traversal in Ruby

CWE-22 — Path Traversal11 documents8 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
2.4%
top 15.02%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
Ruby-lang RubyCanonical Ubuntu LinuxDebian Linux+1 more
Timeline
PublishedApr 3
Latest updateMay 14

Description

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDruby-lang/ruby2.2.0 — 2.2.10+4
▶Alpineruby-lang/ruby< 2.5.1-r0+19

Also affects: Debian Linux 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, Enterprise Linux 6.0, 7.0, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6

Patches

Patch: www.ruby-lang.org ↗Patch: www.ruby-lang.org ↗Patch: www.ruby-lang.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-wpg3-wgm5-rv8w: Directory traversal vulnerability in the Dir↗2022-05-14
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OSV
ruby1.9.1, ruby2.0, ruby2.3 vulnerabilities↗2018-04-16
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CVEList
CVE-2018-6914: Directory traversal vulnerability in the Dir↗2018-04-03
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OSV
CVE-2018-6914: Directory traversal vulnerability in the Dir↗2018-04-03
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
Apple
CVE-2018-6914: macOS Mojave 10.14.1, Security Update 2018-002 High Sierra, Security Update 2018-005 Sierra↗2018-10-30
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Apple
CVE-2018-6914: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, Security Update 2018-004 Sierra, Security Update 2018-004 El Capitan↗2018-07-09
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Ubuntu
Ruby vulnerabilities↗2018-04-16
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Red Hat
ruby: Unintentional file and directory creation with directory traversal in tempfile and tmpdir↗2018-03-28
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-6914 ruby: Unintentional file and directory creation with directory traversal in tempfile and tmpdir↗2018-03-29
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-17742 CVE-2018-6914 CVE-2018-8777 CVE-2018-8778 CVE-2018-8779 CVE-2018-8780 ruby: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2018-03-29
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