CVE-2015-7519
LOW3.7EPSS 0.36%passenger - security update
Published: 10/10/2018Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
agent/Core/Controller/SendRequest.cpp in Phusion Passenger before 4.0.60 and 5.0.x before 5.0.22, when used in Apache integration mode or in standalone mode without a filtering proxy, allows remote attackers to spoof headers passed to applications by using an _ (underscore) character instead of a - (dash) character in an HTTP header, as demonstrated by an X_User header.
Affected packages (4)
- Debian/passengerfrom 0, < 5.0.22-1
- Debian/passengerfrom 0, < 2.2.11debian-2+deb6u1
- Debian/ruby-passengerfrom 0, < 4.0.53-1+deb8u1
- RubyGems/passengerfrom 0, < 4.0.60
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | LOW3.7 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
References (13)
- ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fxwv-953p-7qpf
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7519
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-7519
- PATCHhttps://github.com/phusion/passenger
- WEBhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00024.html
- WEBhttps://blog.phusion.nl/2015/12/07/cve-2015-7519
- WEBhttps://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956281
- WEBhttps://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/ddb8ecc4ebf260e4967f57f271d4f5761abeac3e
- WEBhttps://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/passenger/CVE-2015-7519.yml
- WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00007.html
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20220327073056/https://www.puppet.com/security/cve/passenger-dec-2015-security-fixes
- WEBhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/07/1
- WEBhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/07/2