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CVE-2012-6135 (passenger): Phusion Passenger Gem for Ruby Arbitrary File Deletion

ADVISORIES

GEM

passenger

SEVERITY

CVSS v3.x: 7.5 (High)

CVSS v2.0: 2.1 (Low)

UNAFFECTED VERSIONS

  • < 4.0.0.beta

PATCHED VERSIONS

  • >= 4.0.0

DESCRIPTION

Phusion Passenger Gem for Ruby contains a flaw that is triggered during application startup. This issue may allow a local attacker to delete arbitrary files via an application process. If the program has completed the start up process this vulnerability is no longer exploitable.