Information Exposure Affecting phusion/passenger package, versions [,4.0.37)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PHUSIONPASSENGER-2364861
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed19 Feb 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Feb 2015

CVE-2014-1832  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade phusion/passenger to version 4.0.37 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. Phusion Passenger 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. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-1831.

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