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Rubyzip gem contains a Directory Traversal vulnerability in zip file component

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Sep 6, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 28, 2023

Package

bundler rubyzip (RubyGems)

Affected versions

<= 1.2.1

Patched versions

1.2.2

Description

rubyzip gem rubyzip version 1.2.1 and earlier contains a Directory Traversal vulnerability in Zip::File component that can result in write arbitrary files to the filesystem. This attack appear to be exploitable via If a site allows uploading of .zip files , an attacker can upload a malicious file that contains symlinks or files with absolute pathnames "../" to write arbitrary files to the filesystem..

This is similar to CVE-2017-5946 which was patched in 1.2.1 but the fix in that case was incomplete.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 6, 2018
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Aug 28, 2023

Severity

Critical

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

0.209%
(59th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2018-1000544

GHSA ID

GHSA-vqcq-mrmw-mcmg

Source code

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