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.
Published: 2019-05-10
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
AI Analysis

Analysis and contextual insights are available on OpenCVE Cloud.

Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

Additional remediation guidance may be available on OpenCVE Cloud.

Tracking

Sign in to view the affected projects.

Advisories

No advisories yet.

References
History

No history.

Subscriptions

Ruby-lang Webrick
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T23:03:32.832Z

Reserved: 2019-05-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2019-11879

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-05-10T16:29:01.737

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:21:56.713

Link: CVE-2019-11879

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses