CVE-2017-16355

Source

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16355

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-16355.json

Aliases

• GHSA-cv3f-px9r-54hm

Related

• DSA-4415-1
• USN-5261-1

Published

2017-12-14T22:29:00Z

Modified

2023-11-29T06:09:11.116790Z

Details

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

• https://blog.phusion.nl/2017/10/13/passenger-security-advisory-5-1-11/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4415
• https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/34
• https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/4043718264095cde6623c2cbe8c644541036d7bf