phusion/passenger · Security
Phusion Passenger information disclosure
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-cv3f-px9r-54hm
- CVE ID
- CVE-2017-16355
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 4.7 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 4.7 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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.
CWEs
- CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16355 ↗
- https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/4043718264095cde6623c2cbe8c644541036d7bf ↗
- https://blog.phusion.nl/2017/10/13/passenger-security-advisory-5-1-11/ ↗
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/34 ↗
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4415 ↗
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/passenger/CVE-2017-16355.yml ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cv3f-px9r-54hm ↗