CVE-2017-16355

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.

Risk Information

Base Score

4.7

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.136

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
Vulnerabilities CVE-2017-16355 are fixed in Ruby-passenger 5.1.11	Windows
passenger security update(DSA-4415-1) passenger_5.0.30-1+deb9u1_i386.deb	Linux
passenger security update(DSA-4415-1) passenger_5.0.30-1+deb9u1_amd64.deb	Linux
Vulnerabilities CVE-2017-16355 are fixed in Ruby-passenger for Linux 5.1.11	Linux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234