GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems
GHSA-c7j7-p5jq-26ff Insecure use of temporary files in passenger
LOW
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- Aliases
- CVE-2014-1831
- Ecosystem
- RubyGems
- Packages
- passenger
- Severity
- Low
- Reviewed
- 2020-06-16
Affected packages
• RubyGems passenger: < 4.0.38 → fixed in 4.0.38
Description
Phusion Passenger before 4.0.38 allows local users to write to certain files and directories via a symlink attack on
1. `control_process.pid` or
2. a generation-* file.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2014-1831 Phusion Passenger before 4.0.37 allows local users to write to certain files and directories via a symlink attack on (1)… vulnerability
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-1831 advisory
- https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/34b1087870c2 web
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736958 web
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1058992 web
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c7j7-p5jq-26ff advisory
- https://github.com/phusion/passenger package
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/passenger/CVE-2014-1831.yml web
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/149032.html web
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/28/8 web
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/30/3 web