CVE-2018-1000073: Path Traversal

March 13, 2018 (updated November 30, 2018)

RubyGems 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 the root.

References

blog.rubygems.org/2018/02/15/2.7.6-released.html
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000073

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