GHSA-cv3f-px9r-54hm
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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.
References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16355, https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/4043718264095cde6623c2cbe8c644541036d7bf, https://blog.phusion.nl/2017/10/13/passenger-security-advisory-5-1-11, https://github.com/phusion/passenger, https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/passenger/CVE-2017-16355.yml, https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/34, https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4415
Affected packages
Package
Name: passenger
Purl: pkg:gem/passenger
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
