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Ubuntu: USN-5261-1 (CVE-2017-16355): Phusion Passenger vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-5261-1 (CVE-2017-16355): Phusion Passenger vulnerabilities

Severity
1
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
12/14/2017
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
03/22/2023

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(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libapache2-mod-passenger
  • ubuntu-upgrade-passenger

References

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