Phusion Passenger information disclosure

GHSA-cv3f-px9r-54hm · CVE-2017-16355

Published May 13, 2022 · Modified Feb 20, 2024

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.

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16355
WEB https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/4043718264095cde6623c2cbe8c644541036d7bf
WEB https://blog.phusion.nl/2017/10/13/passenger-security-advisory-5-1-11
WEB https://github.com/phusion/passenger
WEB https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/passenger/CVE-2017-16355.yml
WEB https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/34
WEB https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4415

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