CVE-2014-1832
lowpriority · track · 8EPSS 0.004 · 31 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-26
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.
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affected products (3)
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advisories (1)
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- GHSA-qw8w-2xcp-xg59Insecure use of temporary files in Phusion passenger2018-10-10ghsa · osvUS
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.
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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/2014/01/29/6cnnvd
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/30/3cnnvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65267cnnvd
- 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/94428057c602da3d6d34ef75c78091066ecac5c0cnnvd
- https://www.phusionpassenger.com/Patchcnnvd
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