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CVE-2018-1000079

5.5 mediumEPSS 2.8%

Medium (5.5) in rubygems rubygems. EPSS 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in rubygems-update 2.7.6.

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 gem installation that can result in the gem could write to arbitrary filesystem locations during installation. This attack appear to be exploitable via the victim must install a malicious gem. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.7.6.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

5.5 medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS
2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 86% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-22
Published
Modified
Record from
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Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-8qxg-mff5-j3wcRubyGemsrubygems-update<2.7.62.7.6
GHSA-8qxg-mff5-j3wcMavenorg.jruby:jruby-stdlib<9.1.16.09.1.16.0

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