vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2018-6914: ruby1.8, ruby1.9.1, ruby2.5 -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Apr 3, 2018
Added
Aug 2, 2018
Modified
Aug 15, 2025

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

debian-upgrade-ruby1-8debian-upgrade-ruby1-9-1debian-upgrade-ruby2-5
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