vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-6914: Security patch for ruby20, ruby22, ruby23, ruby24 (ALAS-2018-983)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) | Apr 3, 2018 | May 11, 2018 | Apr 16, 2020 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Apr 3, 2018
Added
May 11, 2018
Modified
Apr 16, 2020
Description
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.
Solutions
amazon-linux-upgrade--ruby22amazon-linux-upgrade--ruby23amazon-linux-upgrade--ruby24amazon-linux-upgrade-ruby20
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