CVE-2017-16355 – passenger

Package

Manager: gem
Name: passenger
Vulnerable Version: >=0 <5.1.11

Severity

Level: Medium

CVSS v3.1: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

EPSS: 0.00136 pctl0.34136

Details

Phusion Passenger information disclosure 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.

Metadata

Created: 2022-05-13T01:30:59Z
Modified: 2022-06-17T21:25:35Z
Source: https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/05/GHSA-cv3f-px9r-54hm/GHSA-cv3f-px9r-54hm.json
CWE IDs: ["CWE-200"]
Alternative ID: GHSA-cv3f-px9r-54hm
Finding: F308
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