Vulnerability CVE-2017-16355
Published: 2017-12-14

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.

Type:

CWE-200

 (Information Exposure)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
1.2/10
2.9/10
1.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
High
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Phusionpassenger -> Phusion passenger 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
https://blog.phusion.nl/2017/10/13/passenger-security-advisory-5-1-11/
https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/4043718264095cde6623c2cbe8c644541036d7bf
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/34
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4415
Copyright 2024, cxsecurity.com

 

Back to Top