Link Following The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package passenger  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-PASSENGER-605164
  • published19 Aug 2020
  • disclosed17 Jun 2018

Introduced: 17 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-12026  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream passenger package and not the passenger package as distributed by Debian.

During the spawning of a malicious Passenger-managed application, SpawningKit in Phusion Passenger 5.3.x before 5.3.2 allows such applications to replace key files or directories in the spawning communication directory with symlinks. This then could result in arbitrary reads and writes, which in turn can result in information disclosure and privilege escalation.