Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 10, 2019· Updated Aug 4, 2024
CVE-2019-11879
CVE-2019-11879
Description
The WEBrick gem 1.4.2 for Ruby allows directory traversal if the attacker once had local access to create a symlink to a location outside of the web root directory. NOTE: The vendor states that this is analogous to Options FollowSymlinks in the Apache HTTP Server, and therefore it is "not a problem.
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Affected products
2- Ruby/WEBrick gemdescription
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
1- bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15835mitrex_refsource_MISC
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