CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-4136
4.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-09-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
Description
ext/common/ServerInstanceDir.h in Phusion Passenger gem before 4.0.6 for Ruby allows local users to gain privileges or possibly change the ownership of arbitrary directories via a symlink attack on a directory with a predictable name in /tmp/.
Affected configurations
• phusion passenger (<= 4.0.5)
• phusion passenger 4.0.1
• phusion passenger 4.0.2
• phusion passenger 4.0.3
• phusion passenger 4.0.4
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1136.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/16/6 www.openwall.com
- https://code.google.com/p/phusion-passenger/issues/detail?id=910 code.google.com
- https://github.com/phusion/passenger/blob/release-4.0.6/NEWS github.com
- https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/5483b3292cc2af1c83033eaaadec20dba4dcfd9b github.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1136.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/16/6 www.openwall.com
- https://code.google.com/p/phusion-passenger/issues/detail?id=910 code.google.com
- https://github.com/phusion/passenger/blob/release-4.0.6/NEWS github.com
- https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/5483b3292cc2af1c83033eaaadec20dba4dcfd9b github.com