CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-16355
4.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-12-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 1.2 LOW — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• phusion passenger (>= 5.0.10 < 5.1.10)
• phusion passenger (>= 5.0.10 < 5.1.11)
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- https://blog.phusion.nl/2017/10/13/passenger-security-advisory-5-1-11/ Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/4043718264095cde6623c2cbe8c644541036d7bf Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/34 Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4415 Third Party Advisory
- https://blog.phusion.nl/2017/10/13/passenger-security-advisory-5-1-11/ Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/4043718264095cde6623c2cbe8c644541036d7bf Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/34 Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4415 Third Party Advisory