CVE-2017-16355 (GCVE-0-2017-16355)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-12-14 22:00
Modified
2024-08-05 20:20
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
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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