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CVE-2017-16355GHSA-CV3F-PX9R-54HM

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

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Fix
Fixed in 5.1.11
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Summary

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.

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Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

  • passengerRubyGems

    fixed in 5.1.11

References 4

blog.phusion.nl

GitHub · phusion/passenger

debian.org

seclists.org