Security Advisory
CVE-2019-11879
5.5
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Description
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.
Published Date
May 10, 2019
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory