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CVE-2018-1000073
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-03-13T15:29:00.427 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:32:21.660

Summary

RubyGems version Ruby 2.2 series: 2.2.9 and earlier, Ruby 2.3 series: 2.3.6 and earlier, Ruby 2.4 series: 2.4.3 and earlier, Ruby 2.5 series: 2.5.0 and earlier, prior to trunk revision 62422 contains a Directory Traversal vulnerability in install_location function of package.rb that can result in path traversal when writing to a symlinked basedir outside of the root. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.7.6.

Affected products

rubygems — rubygems

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References

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