CVE-2013-4136 (GCVE-0-2013-4136)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2013-09-30 19:00
Modified
2024-09-17 03:38
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
ext/common/ServerInstanceDir.h in Phusion Passenger gem before 4.0.6 for Ruby allows local users to gain privileges or possibly change the ownership of arbitrary directories via a symlink attack on a directory with a predictable name in /tmp/.
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