CVE-2018-1000073 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Reference

http://blog.rubygems.org/2018/02/15/2.7.6-released.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00036.html https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3729 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3730 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3731 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2028 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0542 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0591 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0663 https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/commit/1b931fc03b819b9a0214be3eaca844ef534175e2 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00028.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/3621-1/ https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4219 https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4259

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

7.5