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CVE-2017-16355

MEDIUM

4.7

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score4.7

SeverityMEDIUM

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

Attack VectorLOCAL

ComplexityHIGH

Privileges RequiredLOW

User InteractionNONE

Published12/14/2017

Last Modified4/20/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

debian:debian_linuxphusion:passenger

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-200

References

https://blog.phusion.nl/2017/10/13/passenger-security-advisory-5-1-11/(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/4043718264095cde6623c2cbe8c644541036d7bf(cve@mitre.org)

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/34(cve@mitre.org)

https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4415(cve@mitre.org)

https://blog.phusion.nl/2017/10/13/passenger-security-advisory-5-1-11/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/4043718264095cde6623c2cbe8c644541036d7bf(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/34(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4415(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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