CVE-2018-6914

Name
CVE-2018-6914
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.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
Vendor Advisory https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/03/28/unintentional-file-and-directory-creation-with-directory-traversal-cve-2018-6914/
Patch https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/03/28/ruby-2-5-1-released/
Patch https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/03/28/ruby-2-4-4-released/
Patch https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/03/28/ruby-2-3-7-released/
Patch https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/03/28/ruby-2-2-10-released/
Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103686
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3626-1/
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00024.html
Third Party Advisory https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00023.html
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00012.html
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4259
Third Party Advisory http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042004
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3731
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3730
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3729
SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00036.html
REDHAT https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2028

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ruby >= 2.2.0 < 2.2.10
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ruby >= 2.4.0 < 2.4.4
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.6.0:preview1:*:*:*:*:*:* ruby == None == 2.6.0
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ruby >= 2.3.0 < 2.3.7
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ruby >= 2.5.0 < 2.5.1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status