It was found that rubygems did not sanitize gem names during installation of a given gem. A specially crafted gem could use this flaw to install files outside of the regular directory.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
---|---|---|---|
Amazon Linux 1 | ruby22 | 2017-10-02 17:01 | ALAS-2017-906 |
Amazon Linux 1 | ruby23 | 2017-10-02 17:01 | ALAS-2017-906 |
Amazon Linux 1 | ruby24 | 2017-10-26 17:01 | ALAS-2017-915 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv3 | 6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 6.4 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P |
NVD | CVSSv3 | 7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |