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.
{ "nvd_published_at": "2018-03-13T15:29:00Z", "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-59" ], "severity": "HIGH", "github_reviewed": true, "github_reviewed_at": "2023-03-08T20:17:23Z" }