CVE-2017-16355

lowpriority · track · 19EPSS 0.004 · 30 %ileEURUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.36% (30th) EPSS

CVSS 1.2 · low

Is it mine?

8 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 1.2–5.3

v2.01.2lowAV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.9 · impact 2.9

v3.14.7mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1 · impact 3.6

v3.15.3mediumAV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.14.7mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondary · OSV

v3.14.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-200USprimaryCWE-200USCWE-200US

affected products (8)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
Phusion B.V. Phusion Passenger≤ 5.1.11fstec_bduRU
Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения Debian GNU/Linux≤ 8fstec_bduRU
Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения Debian GNU/Linux≤ 9fstec_bduRU
debian debian linux= 9.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
phusion passenger5.0.10 → 5.1.10nvdUScpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
phusion passenger5.0.10 → 5.1.11nvdUScpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
RubyGems passenger< 5.1.11osvUSpkg:gem/passenger

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-cv3f-px9r-54hmPhusion Passenger information disclosure2022-05-13ghsa · osvUS
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.

also known as (4)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2017-12-14modified 2026-06-17

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references (16)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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