ALPINE-CVE-2018-6914

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CVE-2018-6914
Published: 03 Apr 2018, 22:29
Last modified:03 Dec 2025, 22:43

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
3.0 (osv_alpine)
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

03 Apr 2018, 22:29
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
03 Dec 2025, 22:43
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected Systems

  • alpine•ruby

    < 2.5.1-r0 | < 2.5.1-r0 | < 2.5.1-r0 | < 2.5.1-r0 | < 2.5.1-r0 | < 2.5.1-r0 | < 2.5.1-r0 | < 2.5.1-r0 | < 2.5.1-r0 | < 2.5.1-r0 | < 2.5.1-r0 | < 2.5.1-r0 | < 2.5.1-r0 | < 2.5.1-r0 | < 2.3.7-r0 | < 2.3.7-r0 | < 2.4.4-r0 | < 2.4.4-r0 | < 2.5.1-r0 | < 2.5.1-r0

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