Arbitrary Directory/File Creation Vulnerability in Ruby's Dir.mktmpdir Method

CVE-2018-6914 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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.

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