CVE-2018-1000073

Published: 13 March 2018

RubyGems version Ruby 2.2 series: 2.2.9 and earlier, Ruby 2.3 series: 2.3.6 and earlier, Ruby 2.4 series: 2.4.3 and earlier, Ruby 2.5 series: 2.5.0 and earlier, prior to trunk revision 62422 contains a Directory Traversal vulnerability in install_location function of package.rb that can result in path traversal when writing to a symlinked basedir outside of the root. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.7.6.

Notes

ruby{1.9.1,2.0,2.3} and jruby ship an embedded rubygems.

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References

• https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/commit/1b931fc03b819b9a0214be3eaca844ef534175e2
• https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/02/17/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-rubygems/
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3621-1
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1000073
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian