GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems
GHSA-w6rc-q387-vpgq insecure temporary directory usage in passenger
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2013-4136
- Ecosystem
- RubyGems
- Packages
- passenger
- Severity
- Moderate
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
- Reviewed
- 2020-06-16
Affected packages
• RubyGems passenger: < 4.0.6 → fixed in 4.0.6
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/.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2013-4136 ext/common/ServerInstanceDir.h in Phusion Passenger gem before 4.0.6 for Ruby allows local users to gain privileges or possibly change the… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4136 advisory
- https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/5483b3292cc2af1c83033eaaadec20dba4dcfd9b web
- https://code.google.com/p/phusion-passenger/issues/detail?id=910 web
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w6rc-q387-vpgq advisory
- https://github.com/phusion/passenger package
- https://github.com/phusion/passenger/blob/release-4.0.6/NEWS web
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/passenger/CVE-2013-4136.yml web
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1136.html web
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/16/6 web