NetSight
IP …
high7.5

CVE-2018-6914

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 …

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
Ruby-LangRuby
from 2.2.0 before 2.2.10
from 2.3.0 before 2.3.7
from 2.4.0 before 2.4.4
from 2.5.0 before 2.5.1
Version 2.6.0
CanonicalUbuntu Linux
Versions 14.04, 16.04, 17.10
DebianDebian Linux
Versions 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
RedhatEnterprise Linux
Versions 6.0, 7.0, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6

Weakness classification

CWE-22

References