Symlink File Overwrite Affecting passenger package, versions < 4.0.37


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-PASSENGER-20142
  • published27 Jan 2014
  • disclosed27 Jan 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Jan 2014

CVE-2014-1831  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-208  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

passenger is a modern web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js, optimized for performance, low memory usage and ease of use.

Affected versions of this gem create the server instance directory insecurely. An attacker can create a symlink to overwrite an otherwise inaccessible file, possibly inserting content provided by the attacker.

CVSS Scores

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