Directory traversal vulnerability in RubyZip · CVE-2017-5946 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

Directory traversal vulnerability in RubyZip

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 24, 2017 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 28, 2023

Package

rubyzip (RubyGems)

Affected versions

< 1.2.1

Patched versions

1.2.1

Description

The Zip::File component in the rubyzip gem before 1.2.1 for Ruby has a directory traversal vulnerability. If a site allows uploading of .zip files, an attacker can upload a malicious file that uses ../ pathname substrings to write arbitrary files to the filesystem.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 24, 2017

Reviewed Jun 16, 2020

Last updated Aug 28, 2023

Severity

Critical

9.8

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H