CVE-2017-5946

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Feb 27, 2017
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Feb 9, 2017

Description

The Zip::File component in the rubyzip gem before 1.2.1 for Ruby has a directory traversal vulnerability. If a site allows uploading of .zip files, an attacker can upload a malicious file that uses "../" pathname substrings to write arbitrary files to the filesystem.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://github.com/rubyzip/rubyzip/releases
96445vdb-entry
https://github.com/rubyzip/rubyzip/issues/315
DSA-3801vendor-advisory

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