CVE-2018-1000073
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…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 4.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 7.8% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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 install_location function of package.rb that can result in path traversal when writing to a symlinked basedir outside of the root. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.7.6.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 20 days later
· 20 days later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.9% · top 7.8% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.jruby:jruby-stdlibGHSA-gx69-6cp4-hxrj (opens in a new tab)
- RubyGemsrubygems-updateGHSA-gx69-6cp4-hxrj (opens in a new tab)
References
14
- DSA-4219 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- USN-3621-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:3729 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:3730 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:3731 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/commit/1b931fc03b819b9a0214be3eaca844ef534175e2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180827 [SECURITY] [DLA 1480-1] ruby2.1 security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- DSA-4259 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- http://blog.rubygems.org/2018/02/15/2.7.6-released.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1771 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2028 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2020:0542 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2020:0591 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2020:0663 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-4029 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-gx69-6cp4-hxrj (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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