Bug 1561947 (CVE-2018-6914)

Summary: CVE-2018-6914 ruby: Unintentional file and directory creation with directory traversal in tempfile and tmpdir
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Priority: low    
Version: unspecifiedCC: bkearney, cbillett, ccoleman, cpelland, dajohnso, dedgar, dmcphers, gblomqui, gmccullo, gtanzill, hhorak, hhudgeon, jaruga, jfrey, jgoulding, jhardy, jorton, jprause, mtasaka, obarenbo, pvalena, roliveri, ruby-maint, simaishi, s, strzibny, tomckay, vanmeeuwen+fedora, vondruch
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: ruby 2.2.10, ruby 2.3.7, ruby 2.4.4, ruby 2.5.1 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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It was found that the tmpdir and tempfile modules did not sanitize their file name argument. An attacker with control over the name could create temporary files and directories outside of the dedicated directory.
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:19:03 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1561956, 1561957, 1561958, 1563873, 1563874, 1565258, 1568980, 1568981, 1568982, 1568983, 1568984, 1651798, 1652037, 1652038    
Bug Blocks: 1561954    

Description Adam Mariš 2018-03-29 09:07:06 UTC
Dir.mktmpdir method introduced by tmpdir library accepts the prefix and the suffix of the directory which is created as the first parameter. The prefix can contain relative directory specifiers "../", so this method can be used to target any directory. So, if a script accepts an external input as the prefix, and the targeted directory has inappropriate permissions or the ruby process has inappropriate privileges, the attacker can create a directory or a file at any directory.

Affected versions:

Ruby 2.2 series: 2.2.9 and earlier
Ruby 2.3 series: 2.3.6 and earlier
Ruby 2.4 series: 2.4.3 and earlier
Ruby 2.5 series: 2.5.0 and earlier

External References:

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/03/28/unintentional-file-and-directory-creation-with-directory-traversal-cve-2018-6914/

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2018-03-29 09:16:08 UTC
Created ruby tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1561957]

Comment 8 Cedric Buissart 2018-04-18 14:24:45 UTC
Low impact because of the filename requirements : path will still contain unpredictable characters. Thus the attacker does not have full control over the filename, or the directory.

Comment 9 Andrej Nemec 2018-05-14 15:26:40 UTC
Statement:

This issue affects the versions of ruby as shipped with Red Hat CloudForms 4. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having security impact of Moderate. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

This issue affects the versions of ruby as shipped with Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having security impact of Moderate. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

Comment 10 Jun Aruga 2018-11-16 19:20:14 UTC
Upstream patch:

> Affected versions:

trunk (r62990):
https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/10b96900b90914b0cc1dba36f9736c038db2859d

> Ruby 2.2 series: 2.2.9 and earlier

On ruby_2_2 branch:
https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/e9ddf2ba41a0bffe1047e33576affd48808c5d0b

> Ruby 2.3 series: 2.3.6 and earlier
> Ruby 2.4 series: 2.4.3 and earlier
> Ruby 2.5 series: 2.5.0 and earlier

Check ruby_2_N branches.

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2018-11-29 09:56:21 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 EUS

Via RHSA-2018:3729 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3729

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2018-11-29 10:10:50 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 EUS

Via RHSA-2018:3730 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3730

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2018-11-29 10:22:11 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 EUS

Via RHSA-2018:3731 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3731

Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2019-08-06 12:03:48 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2019:2028 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2028