PT-2015-3690 · Phusion · Phusion Passenger

Published 2015-02-19 · Updated 2018-10-10 · CVE-2014-1832

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

2.1

Low

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Phusion Passenger version 4.0.37

Description The issue allows local users to write to certain files and directories via a symlink attack on (1) control process.pid or a (2) generation-* file. This is due to an incomplete fix for a previous issue.

Recommendations For Phusion Passenger version 4.0.37, consider restricting access to the control process.pid and generation-* files to prevent a symlink attack until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-1832

GHSA-QW8W-2XCP-XG59

Affected Products

Phusion Passenger

References · 12

• 🔥 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/passenger/CVE-2014-1832.yml · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-1832 · Security Note
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/149032.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-qw8w-2xcp-xg59 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/phusion/passenger · Note
• https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/94428057c602da3d6d34ef75c78091066ecac5c0 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/29/6 · Note
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736958 · Note
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qw8w-2xcp-xg59 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1058992 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/30/3 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-1832 · Note