CVE-2017-16355
14.12.2017, 22:29
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.Enginsight
Vendor | Product | Version |
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phusion | passenger | 5.0.10 ≤ 𝑥 < 5.1.10 |
phusion | passenger | 5.0.10 ≤ 𝑥 < 5.1.11 |
debian | debian_linux | 9.0 |
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Common Weakness Enumeration
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