{"id":"CVE-2019-11879","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.","modified":"2026-07-08T18:17:57.870633Z","published":"2019-05-10T16:29:01.737Z","references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15835"}],"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:*:*","extracted_events":[{"introduced":"1.4.2"},{"last_affected":"1.4.2"}],"source":"CPE_STRING"}}],"versions":["1.4.2","v1.4.2"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-11879.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"}]}