CVE-2019-11879
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/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
- 2025-11-20T10:55:32.587507Z
- Severity
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- 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
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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.
- Database specific
{ "isDisputed": true }- References