Improper Access Control Affecting jekyll package, versions <3.6.3>=3.7.0, <3.7.4>=3.8.0, <3.8.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.14% (52nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-JEKYLL-451462
  • published3 Jul 2019
  • disclosed19 Sept 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-17567  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade jekyll to version 3.6.3, 3.7.4, 3.8.4 or higher.

Overview

jekyll is a web framework for building static websites.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Access Control. This allows attackers to access arbitrary files by specifying a symlink in the include key in the _config.yml file.

CVSS Scores

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