CVE-2019-11879

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    CVE-2019-11879

    Published: 10 May 2019Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15835

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 346c656620bd33bf090ca10785b7fa2b54ec2d55
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.4.2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High