CVSS 3.1
4.7 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NCVE-2017-16355
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 29% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-200
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- phusion:passenger
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-cv3f-px9r-54hm | RubyGems | passenger | <5.1.11 | 5.1.11 |
References
- https://blog.phusion.nl/2017/10/13/passenger-security-advisory-5-1-11/
- https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/4043718264095cde6623c2cbe8c644541036d7bf
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/34
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4415
- https://blog.phusion.nl/2017/10/13/passenger-security-advisory-5-1-11/