Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in the Dir.mktmpdir method in the tmpdir library in Ruby before 2.2.10, 2.3.x before 2.3.7, 2.4.x before 2.4.4, 2.5.x before 2.5.1, and 2.6.0-preview1 might allow attackers to create arbitrary directories or files via a .. (dot dot) in the prefix argument.
Published: 2018-04-03
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 2.4% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1358-1 ruby1.9.1 security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1359-1 ruby1.8 security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1421-1 ruby2.1 security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4259-1 ruby2.3 security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-18658 Directory traversal vulnerability in the Dir.mktmpdir method in the tmpdir library in Ruby before 2.2.10, 2.3.x before 2.3.7, 2.4.x before 2.4.4, 2.5.x before 2.5.1, and 2.6.0-preview1 might allow attackers to create arbitrary directories or files via a .. (dot dot) in the prefix argument.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3626-1 Ruby vulnerabilities
History

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.01715}

epss

{'score': 0.01652}


Subscriptions

Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Debian Debian Linux
Redhat Enterprise Linux Rhel Software Collections
Ruby-lang Ruby
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T06:17:17.120Z

Reserved: 2018-02-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-6914

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-04-03T22:29:00.587

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:11:24.910

Link: CVE-2018-6914

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2018-03-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-6914 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses