CVE-2019-11879

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-11879
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-11879.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2019-11879
Published
2019-05-10T16:29:01.737Z
Modified
2026-07-08T18:17:57.870633Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
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

Affected packages

Git / github.com/ruby/webrick

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/ruby/webrick
Events
Introduced
346c656620bd33bf090ca10785b7fa2b54ec2d55
Last affected
346c656620bd33bf090ca10785b7fa2b54ec2d55
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:webrick:1.4.2:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*",
    "source": "CPE_STRING",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "1.4.2"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.4.2"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

1.*
1.4.2
v1.*
v1.4.2

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-11879.json"