PT-2013-4866 · Phusion · Phusion Passenger

Grumpy Camel · Published 2013-08-22 · Updated 2017-10-24 · CVE-2013-4136

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Phusion Passenger gem versions prior to 4.0.6

Description The issue allows local users to gain privileges or possibly change the ownership of arbitrary directories via a symlink attack on a directory with a predictable name in /tmp/. This is due to a vulnerability in the ext/common/ServerInstanceDir.h file.

Recommendations For Phusion Passenger gem versions prior to 4.0.6, update to version 4.0.6 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the /tmp/ directory to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-4136

GHSA-W6RC-Q387-VPGQ

MGASA-2013-0253

RHSA-2013:1136

SUSE-SU-2016:0042-1

Affected Products

Phusion Passenger

References · 29

• 🔥 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/passenger/CVE-2013-4136.yml · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4136 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:0042-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2013-0253.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-4136 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-July/112716.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1136.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4136 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4136 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2013-0253 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4136 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4136 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-w6rc-q387-vpgq · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-4136 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/phusion/passenger · Note