CVE-2017-5946 (GCVE-0-2017-5946)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-02-27 07:25
Modified
2024-08-05 15:18
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The Zip::File component in the rubyzip gem before 1.2.1 for Ruby has a directory traversal vulnerability. If a site allows uploading of .zip files, an attacker can upload a malicious file that uses "../" pathname substrings to write arbitrary files to the filesystem.
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