FKIE_CVE-2017-16355

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-12-14 22:29 - Updated: 2025-04-20 01:37
Severity ?
4.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://blog.phusion.nl/2017/10/13/passenger-security-advisory-5-1-11/Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/4043718264095cde6623c2cbe8c644541036d7bfPatch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/34Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4415Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://blog.phusion.nl/2017/10/13/passenger-security-advisory-5-1-11/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/4043718264095cde6623c2cbe8c644541036d7bfPatch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/34Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4415Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
phusion passenger *
phusion passenger *
debian debian_linux 9.0
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