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SCA: security update for rubyzip (GHSA-gcqq-w6gr-h9j9)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422257

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2017-5946)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gcqq-w6gr-h9j9

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 422257

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 1/27/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-5946

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/24/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/27/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5946

BID: 96445

cwe: CWE-22