Ruby through 2.4.7, 2.5.x through 2.5.6, and 2.6.x through 2.6.4 mishandles path checking within File.fnmatch functions.

Description

Ruby through 2.4.7, 2.5.x through 2.5.6, and 2.6.x through 2.6.4 mishandles path checking within File.fnmatch functions.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

3.3% · top 11% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (9)

• https://hackerone.com/reports/449617 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• [debian-lts-announce] 20191125 [SECURITY] [DLA 2007-1] ruby2.1 security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• USN-4201-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• 20191217 [SECURITY] [DSA 4587-1] ruby2.3 security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 20191217 [SECURITY] [DSA 4586-1] ruby2.5 security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• DSA-4587 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• GLSA-202003-06 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2020:0395 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 01:03 UTC.