GHSA-cv3f-px9r-54hm
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-13 01:30
Modified
2022-06-17 21:25
Summary
Phusion Passenger information disclosure
Details

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": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "RubyGems",
        "name": "passenger"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "5.1.11"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2017-16355"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-200"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2022-06-17T21:25:35Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2017-12-14T22:29:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "GHSA-cv3f-px9r-54hm",
  "modified": "2022-06-17T21:25:35Z",
  "published": "2022-05-13T01:30:59Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16355"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/4043718264095cde6623c2cbe8c644541036d7bf"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://blog.phusion.nl/2017/10/13/passenger-security-advisory-5-1-11"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/phusion/passenger"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/passenger/CVE-2017-16355.yml"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/34"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4415"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Phusion Passenger information disclosure"
}


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