CVE-2017-5946: rubygem-rubyzip: Directory traversal in the Zip::File component

Severity: Critical

CVSS Score: 9.8

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.