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.
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2017-16355US | medium4.7 | — | ||
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 poss… | ||||
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External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://blog.phusion.nl/2017/10/13/passenger-security-advisory-5-1-11WEB
- https://github.com/phusion/passengerWEB
- https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/4043718264095cde6623c2cbe8c644541036d7bfWEB
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/passenger/CVE-2017-16355.ymlWEB
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16355ADVISORY
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/34WEB
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4415WEB
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