GSD-2017-16355

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2022-05-13 00:00
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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.
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    "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.",
    "id": "GSD-2017-16355",
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      "https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4415",
      "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-16355"
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      "modified": "2022-05-13T00:00:00.000Z",
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