CVE-2014-1831 (GCVE-0-2014-1831)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-02-19 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 09:50
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Summary
Phusion Passenger before 4.0.37 allows local users to write to certain files and directories via a symlink attack on (1) control_process.pid or a (2) generation-* file.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2014-01-28 00:00
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