CVE-2014-1831
lowpriority · track · 8EPSS 0.004 · 31 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
Phusion Passenger before 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.
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
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affected products (3)
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advisories (1)
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- GHSA-c7j7-p5jq-26ffInsecure use of temporary files in passenger2018-10-10ghsa · osvUS
Phusion Passenger before 4.0.38 allows local users to write to certain files and directories via a symlink attack on 1. `control_process.pid` or 2. a generation-* file.
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references (20)
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- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/149032.htmlcnnvd
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/28/8cnnvd
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/30/3cnnvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65207cnnvd
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736958cnnvd
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1058992cnnvd
- https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/34b1087870c2cnnvd
- https://www.phusionpassenger.com/Patchcnnvd
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