vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2015-7519): passenger vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) | Jan 8, 2016 | Nov 19, 2024 | Mar 27, 2026 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jan 8, 2016
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Mar 27, 2026
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
ubuntu-upgrade-passenger
References
- CVE-2015-7519
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2015-7519
- CWE-20
- EUVD-EUVD-2018-0595
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956281
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2018-0595
- https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/ddb8ecc4ebf260e4967f57f271d4f5761abeac3e
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7519
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