vulnerability
Debian: CVE-2017-16355: passenger -- security update
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N) | Dec 14, 2017 | Mar 25, 2019 | Aug 15, 2025 |
Severity
1
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Dec 14, 2017
Added
Mar 25, 2019
Modified
Aug 15, 2025
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.
Solution
debian-upgrade-passenger
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