GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems
GHSA-cv3f-px9r-54hm Phusion Passenger information disclosure
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2017-16355
- Ecosystem
- RubyGems
- Packages
- passenger
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
- Reviewed
- 2022-06-17
Affected packages
• RubyGems passenger: < 5.1.11 → fixed in 5.1.11
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.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-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… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16355 advisory
- https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/4043718264095cde6623c2cbe8c644541036d7bf web
- https://blog.phusion.nl/2017/10/13/passenger-security-advisory-5-1-11 web
- https://github.com/phusion/passenger web
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/passenger/CVE-2017-16355.yml web
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/34 web
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4415 web