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CVE-2013-4136
ext/common/ServerInstanceDir.h in Phusion Passenger gem before 4.0.6 for Ruby allows local users to gain privileges or possibly change the…
Medium4.4EPSS 0.33%
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- redhat
Description
ext/common/ServerInstanceDir.h in Phusion Passenger gem before 4.0.6 for Ruby 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/.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.4 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.33% · top 74% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.4.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemspassengerGHSA-w6rc-q387-vpgq (opens in a new tab)
References (5)
- https://github.com/phusion/passenger/blob/release-4.0.6/NEWS (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://code.google.com/p/phusion-passenger/issues/detail?id=910 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/5483b3292cc2af1c83033eaaadec20dba4dcfd9b (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:1136 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20130716 Re: Re: Insecure temp files usage in phusion passenger (other than CVE-2013-2119) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-w6rc-q387-vpgq (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .