CVE-2019-11879

lowpriority · track · 22EPSS 0.005 · 46 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.55% (46th) EPSS

CVSS 2.1 · low

Is it mine?

2 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 2.1–5.5

v2.02.1lowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 2.9

v3.05.5mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.8 · impact 3.6

v3.05.1mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-22USprimaryCWE-59USprimary

affected products (2)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
ruby-lang webrick= 1.4.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:webrick:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2019-05-10modified 2026-06-17

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references (4)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15835 cnnvd
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11879 cnnvd
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15835 enisa_euvd
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15835Issue TrackingVendor Advisorynvd

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