Phusion Passenger information disclosure
Published: May 13, 2022
SECURITY IDENTIFIERS
- CVE: CVE-2017-16355 (NVD)
- GHSA: GHSA-cv3f-px9r-54hm
- Vendor Advisory: https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/4043718264095cde6623c2cbe8c644541036d7bf
GEM
SEVERITY
CVSS v3.x: 4.7 (Medium)
PATCHED VERSIONS
>= 5.1.11
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.