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HistorySep 06, 2018 - 3:27 a.m.

Rubyzip gem contains a Directory Traversal vulnerability in zip file component

2018-09-0603:27:18
CWE-59
CWE-434
GitHub Advisory Database
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0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

60.3%

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…

This is similar to CVE-2017-5946 which was patched in 1.2.1 but the fix in that case was incomplete.

CPENameOperatorVersion
rubyziple1.2.1