Access Restriction Bypass Affecting phusion/passenger package, versions [,3.0.21)


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-2364865
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Jan 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Jan 2014

CVE-2013-2119  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade phusion/passenger to version 3.0.21 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Phusion Passenger gem before 3.0.21 and 4.0.x before 4.0.5 for Ruby allows local users to cause a denial of service (prevent application start) or gain privileges by pre-creating a temporary "config" file in a directory with a predictable name in /tmp/ before it is used by the gem.

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