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CVE-2017-16355
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),…
Medium4.7EPSS 0.36%
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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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium4.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.36% · top 70% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.7.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemspassengerGHSA-cv3f-px9r-54hm (opens in a new tab)
References (4)
- https://blog.phusion.nl/2017/10/13/passenger-security-advisory-5-1-11/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/4043718264095cde6623c2cbe8c644541036d7bf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-4415 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 20190324 [SECURITY] [DSA 4415-1] passenger security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_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-cv3f-px9r-54hm (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .