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Insecure use of temporary files in passenger

Low severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 10, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jul 5, 2023

Package

bundler passenger (RubyGems)

Affected versions

< 4.0.38

Patched versions

4.0.38

Description

Phusion Passenger before 4.0.38 allows local users to write to certain files and directories via a symlink attack on

  1. control_process.pid or
  2. a generation-* file.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 19, 2015
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 10, 2018
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Jul 5, 2023

Severity

Low

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2014-1831

GHSA ID

GHSA-c7j7-p5jq-26ff

Source code

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