GHSA-wpg3-wgm5-rv8w

GHSA-wpg3-wgm5-rv8w PUBLISHED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 14, 2022

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.

Risk scores

CVSS 3.0

7.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Timeline

May 14, 2022 CVE Published
Apr 9, 2026 Distribution Patch (5 in total, the first dated here)
Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory (6 in total, the first dated here)

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