Information Exposure Affecting rubygem-passenger package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.36% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-RUBYGEMPASSENGER-9887599
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed16 Oct 2017

Introduced: 16 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-16355  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 rubygem-passenger.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rubygem-passenger package and not the rubygem-passenger package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

In agent/Core/SpawningKit/Spawner.h in Phusion Passenger 5.1.10 (fixed in Passenger Open Source 5.1.11 and Passenger Enterprise 5.1.10), if Passenger is running as root, it is possible to list the contents of arbitrary files on a system by symlinking a file named REVISION from the application root folder to a file of choice and querying passenger-status --show=xml.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1