CVE-2017-16355
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.
| Software | From | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| phusion / passenger | 5.0.10 | 5.1.10 |
| phusion / passenger | 5.0.10 | 5.1.11 |
| debian / debian_linux | 9.0 | 9.0.x |
passenger
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- | 5.1.11 |
- https://blog.phusion.nl/2017/10/13/passenger-security-advisory-5-1-11/
- https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/4043718264095cde6623c2cbe8c644541036d7bf
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/passenger/CVE-2017-16355.yml
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/34
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4415
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