medium4.7
CVE-2017-16355
Phusion Passenger information disclosure
Impact
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.
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| rubygems | passenger | < 5.1.11 | 5.1.11 |
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Phusion | Passenger | from 5.0.10 before 5.1.10 from 5.0.10 before 5.1.11 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | Version 9.0 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- GitHub advisory
- https://blog.phusion.nl/2017/10/13/passenger-security-advisory-5-1-11/
- https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/4043718264095cde6623c2cbe8c644541036d7bf
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/34
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4415
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cv3f-px9r-54hm
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16355
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/passenger/CVE-2017-16355.yml