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    CVE-2013-2119

    Phusion Passenger gem before 3.0.21 and 4.0.x before 4.0.5 for Ruby allows local users to cause a denial of service (prevent application start) or gain privileges by pre-creating a temporary "config" file in a directory with a predictable name in /tmp/ before it is used by the gem.

    Published:May 29, 2013
    Last Modified:Apr 11, 2025
    EPS:Jan 2, 2014
    EPSS Score:0.00057
    CVSS Score:4.6

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Phusion
    Product
    Passenger
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Openshift
    Vendor
    Ruby-lang
    Product
    Ruby

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-377 Insecure Temporary File

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High