CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-7519
3.7 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-01-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 3.7 LOW — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
agent/Core/Controller/SendRequest.cpp in Phusion Passenger before 4.0.60 and 5.0.x before 5.0.22, when used in Apache integration mode or in standalone mode without a filtering proxy, allows remote attackers to spoof headers passed to applications by using an _ (underscore) character instead of a - (dash) character in an HTTP header, as demonstrated by an X_User header.
Affected configurations
• phusionpassenger phusion passenger (<= 4.0.59)
• phusionpassenger phusion passenger 5.0.0
• phusionpassenger phusion passenger 5.0.1
• phusionpassenger phusion passenger 5.0.2
• phusionpassenger phusion passenger 5.0.3
• phusionpassenger phusion passenger 5.0.4
• phusionpassenger phusion passenger 5.0.5
• phusionpassenger phusion passenger 5.0.6
• phusionpassenger phusion passenger 5.0.7
• phusionpassenger phusion passenger 5.0.8
• phusionpassenger phusion passenger 5.0.9
• phusionpassenger phusion passenger 5.0.10
• phusionpassenger phusion passenger 5.0.11
• phusionpassenger phusion passenger 5.0.12
• phusionpassenger phusion passenger 5.0.13
• phusionpassenger phusion passenger 5.0.14
• phusionpassenger phusion passenger 5.0.15
• phusionpassenger phusion passenger 5.0.16
• phusionpassenger phusion passenger 5.0.17
• phusionpassenger phusion passenger 5.0.18
• phusionpassenger phusion passenger 5.0.19
• phusionpassenger phusion passenger 5.0.20
• phusionpassenger phusion passenger 5.0.21
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00024.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/07/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/07/2 www.openwall.com
- https://blog.phusion.nl/2015/12/07/cve-2015-7519/ Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956281 bugzilla.suse.com
- https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/ddb8ecc4ebf260e4967f57f271d4f5761abeac3e github.com
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00007.html lists.debian.org
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/passenger-dec-2015-security-fixes puppet.com
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00024.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/07/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/07/2 www.openwall.com
- https://blog.phusion.nl/2015/12/07/cve-2015-7519/ Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956281 bugzilla.suse.com
- https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/ddb8ecc4ebf260e4967f57f271d4f5761abeac3e github.com
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00007.html lists.debian.org
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/passenger-dec-2015-security-fixes puppet.com