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Ruby Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (Path Traversal) Vulnerability - CVE-2018-8780 - Vulnerability Database
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Ruby Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (Path Traversal) Vulnerability - CVE-2018-8780

Critical
Reference: CVE-2018-8780
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8780
Title: Ruby Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (Path Traversal) Vulnerability
Overview:

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 the Dir.open Dir.new Dir.entries and Dir.empty methods do not check NULL characters. When using the corresponding method unintentional directory traversal may be performed.