Satellite 6 upgrade fails with error 'Insecure world writable dir /root in PATH, mode 040777'

Issue

• Running Satellite upgrade script fails with the following error.

[root@sat ~]# satellite-maintain upgrade check --target-version 6.10
/usr/share/gems/gems/foreman_maintain-0.8.31/lib/foreman_maintain/config.rb:24: warning: Insecure world writable dir /root in PATH, mode 040777
Checking for new version of satellite-maintain...
Nothing to update, can't find new version of satellite-maintain.
/usr/share/rubygems/rubygems/version.rb:191:in `initialize': Malformed version number string /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/util.rb:49: warning: Insecure world writable dir /root in PATH, mode 040777 (ArgumentError)
6.26.0