CVE-2018-8780

Public on 2018-04-03
Modified on 2019-08-27
Description
It was found that the methods from the Dir class did not properly handle strings containing the NULL byte. An attacker, able to inject NULL bytes in a path, could possibly trigger an unspecified behavior of the ruby script.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.5
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 2 - Core ruby 2019-08-23 ALAS2-2019-1276 Fixed
Amazon Linux 1 ruby20 2018-04-04 ALAS-2018-983 Fixed
Amazon Linux 1 ruby22 2018-04-04 ALAS-2018-983 Fixed
Amazon Linux 1 ruby23 2018-04-04 ALAS-2018-983 Fixed
Amazon Linux 1 ruby24 2018-04-04 ALAS-2018-983 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 9.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N