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Debian: CVE-2015-7519: passenger, ruby-passenger -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2015-7519: passenger, ruby-passenger -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
01/08/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/31/2017
Modified
03/23/2020

Description

agent/Core/Controller/SendRequest.cpp in Phusion Passenger before 4.0.60 and 5.0.x before 5.0.22, when used in Apache integration mode or in standalone mode without a filtering proxy, allows remote attackers to spoof headers passed to applications by using an _ (underscore) character instead of a - (dash) character in an HTTP header, as demonstrated by an X_User header.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-passenger
  • debian-upgrade-ruby-passenger

References

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