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CVE-2017-16355
Published: Dec 14, 2017
Modified: Aug 5, 2024
PUBLISHED
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.
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References
https://blog.phusion.nl/2017/10/13/passenger-security-advisory-5-1-11/
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DSA-4415
vendor-advisory
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20190324 [SECURITY] [DSA 4415-1] passenger security update
mailing-list
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