CVE-2018-1000544

CRITICAL9.8EPSS 0.66%

ruby-zip - security update

Published: 9/6/2018Modified: 3/9/2026
Also known as:GHSA-vqcq-mrmw-mcmgDEBIAN-CVE-2018-1000544DLA-1467-1

Description

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..

Affected packages (4)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1CRITICAL9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (8)