Information Exposure Affecting phusion/passenger package, versions [0,5.1.11)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (27th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PHUSIONPASSENGER-2364864
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed14 Dec 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Dec 2017

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

How to fix?

Upgrade phusion/passenger to version 5.1.11 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. 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.

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