{"cve":"CVE-2014-1831","nvd":{"published":"2015-02-19T15:59:02.047","modified":"2026-06-17T00:05:37.620","status":"Modified","description":"Phusion Passenger before 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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":[],"references":["http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/149032.html","http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/28/8","http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/30/3","https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736958","https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1058992"],"products":["phusion:passenger"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T20:35:35.528235705+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2014-1831","score":0.00371,"percentile":0.31015,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[{"id":"GHSA-c7j7-p5jq-26ff","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-c7j7-p5jq-26ff","summary":"Insecure use of temporary files in passenger","modified":"2024-12-08T05:43:54.866033Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"RubyGems","name":"passenger","purl":"pkg:gem/passenger","ranges":["<4.0.38"],"fixed":["4.0.38"]}]}],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}