CVE-2016-10345
HIGH7.8EPSS 0.06%Phusion Passenger uses a known /tmp filename
Published: 8/21/2018Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
In Phusion Passenger before 5.1.0, a known /tmp filename was used during passenger-install-nginx-module execution, which could allow local attackers to gain the privileges of the passenger user.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/passengerfrom 0
- RubyGems/passengerfrom 0, < 5.1.0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References (8)
- ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cqxw-3p7v-p9gr
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10345
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10345
- WEBhttps://blog.phusion.nl/2017/01/10/passenger-5-1-1
- WEBhttps://github.com/phusion/passenger
- WEBhttps://github.com/phusion/passenger/blob/stable-5.1/CHANGELOG
- WEBhttps://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/e5b4b0824d6b648525b4bf63d9fa37e5beeae441
- WEBhttps://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/passenger/CVE-2016-10345.yml