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CVE-2018-17567

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-09-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

Jekyll through 3.6.2, 3.7.x through 3.7.3, and 3.8.x through 3.8.3 allows attackers to access arbitrary files by specifying a symlink in the "include" key in the "_config.yml" file.

Affected products

• Jekyllrb Jekyll: through 3.6.2; from 3.7.0 through 3.7.3; from 3.8.0 through 3.8.3

References

• https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/pull/7224
• https://jekyllrb.com/news/2018/09/19/security-fixes-for-3-6-3-7-3-8/
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/71da391f584b2fb301d2df0e491b279d87287e2fb4b11309f04ad984%40%3Ccommits.accumulo.apache.org%3E
• https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/pull/7224
• https://jekyllrb.com/news/2018/09/19/security-fixes-for-3-6-3-7-3-8/
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/71da391f584b2fb301d2df0e491b279d87287e2fb4b11309f04ad984%40%3Ccommits.accumulo.apache.org%3E

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