CVE-2014-1831 Affecting ruby-passenger package, versions <4.0.37-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.37% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-RUBYPASSENGER-275101
  • published19 Feb 2015
  • disclosed19 Feb 2015

Introduced: 19 Feb 2015

CVE-2014-1831  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 ruby-passenger to version 4.0.37-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby-passenger package and not the ruby-passenger package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

Phusion Passenger before 4.0.37 allows local users to write to certain files and directories via a symlink attack on (1) control_process.pid or a (2) generation-* file.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1