CVE-2014-1832
EPSS 0.07%Insecure use of temporary files in Phusion passenger
Published: 10/10/2018Modified: 11/8/2023
Also known as:GHSA-qw8w-2xcp-xg59
Description
Phusion Passenger 4.0.37 allows local users to write to certain files and directories via a symlink attack on (1) control_process.pid or a (2) generation-* file. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-1831.
Affected packages (1)
- RubyGems/passenger>= 4.0.37, < 4.0.38
References (10)
- ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qw8w-2xcp-xg59
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-1832
- PATCHhttps://github.com/phusion/passenger
- WEBhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/149032.html
- WEBhttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/29/6
- WEBhttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/30/3
- WEBhttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736958
- WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1058992
- WEBhttps://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/94428057c602da3d6d34ef75c78091066ecac5c0
- WEBhttps://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/passenger/CVE-2014-1832.yml