CVE-2017-5946

Publication date

2017-02-27 07:25:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

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.