cve/2019/CVE-2019-11879.md

CVE-2019-11879

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.

POC

Reference

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Github

• https://github.com/spaluchowski/metadata-server-tests