PT-2016-3800 · Phusion+1 · Phusion Passenger+1

Adrian Schröter · Published 2015-12-21 · Updated 2018-10-10 · CVE-2015-7519

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Phusion Passenger versions prior to 4.0.60 Phusion Passenger versions 5.0.x prior to 5.0.22

Description The issue allows remote attackers to spoof headers passed to applications by using an (underscore) character instead of a - (dash) character in an HTTP header. This can be demonstrated by an X User header. The problem occurs when Phusion Passenger is used in Apache integration mode or in standalone mode without a filtering proxy.

Recommendations For Phusion Passenger versions prior to 4.0.60, update to version 4.0.60 or later. For Phusion Passenger versions 5.0.x prior to 5.0.22, update to version 5.0.22 or later.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-7519

DLA-1399-1

DLA-394-1

GHSA-FXWV-953P-7QPF

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11341-1

SUSE-SU-2015:2337-1

SUSE-SU-2015_2337-1

SUSE-SU-2016:0042-1

Affected Products

Phusion Passenger

Suse

References · 41

• 🔥 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/passenger/CVE-2015-7519.yml · Exploit
• https://blog.phusion.nl/2015/12/07/cve-2015-7519 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-7519 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:0042-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-7519 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-12029 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7519 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2019-01638 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-fxwv-953p-7qpf · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7519 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00024.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/ruby-passenger · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-1399-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7519 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7519 · Vendor Advisory