rubygems package report

Is rubyzip safe?

4 known vulnerabilities, worst severity CRITICAL.

cvss
9.0

how bad it is if exploited, out of 10

epss
4.4%

chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

xyz score
4.1

CyberXYZ composite, out of 10

fig. 01 — GHSA-vqcq-mrmw-mcmg, the advisory selected below

// advisories

GHSA-vqcq-mrmw-mcmg

CRITICALCVE-2018-1000544

rubyzip gem rubyzip version 1.2.1 and earlier contains a Directory Traversal vulnerability in Zip::File component that can result in write arbitrary files to the filesystem. This attack appear to be exploitable via If a site allows uploading of .zip files , an attacker can upload a malicious file that contains symlinks or files with absolute pathnames "../" to write arbitrary files to the filesyst

Affected
<= 1.2.1
Fixed in
1.2.2
Weakness
CWE-59
Published
2018-09-06
Source
github

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// dependencies

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// ai model usage

Tracked for PyPI packages. HuggingFace models declare Python dependencies, so rubygems packages are not covered.

Checked 2026-09-22 at 01:36 UTC. The most recent advisory here was published 2019-09-30. Updated continuously from NVD, GHSA, OSV and CNA feeds.

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