medium5.5
CVE-2019-11879
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 direc…
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ruby-Lang | Webrick | Version 1.4.2 |