Vulnerability CVE-2014-1832
Published: 2015-02-19

Description:
Phusion Passenger 4.0.37 allows local users to write to certain files and directories via a symlink attack on (1) control_process.pid or a (2) generation-* file. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-1831.

Type:

CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Phusion -> Passenger 

 References:
https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/94428057c602da3d6d34ef75c78091066ecac5c0
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1058992
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736958
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/30/3
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/29/6
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/149032.html
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