CVE-2018-6914

Published: 03 April 2018

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.

Priority

Medium

CVSS 3 base score: 7.5

Status

Package Release Status
ruby1.9.1
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian 		Upstream Needs triage

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) Does not exist

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) Does not exist

Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) Does not exist
(trusty was released [1.9.3.484-2ubuntu1.11])
ruby2.0
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian 		Upstream Needs triage

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) Does not exist

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) Does not exist

Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) Does not exist
(trusty was released [2.0.0.484-1ubuntu2.9])
ruby2.3
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian 		Upstream Needs triage

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) Does not exist

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)
Released (2.3.1-2~16.04.9)
Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) Does not exist

ruby2.5
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian 		Upstream Needs triage

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
Released (2.5.1-1)
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) Does not exist

Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) Does not exist

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