CVE-2013-2119
Moderate
Phusion Passenger Denial of Service
Phusion Passenger gem before 3.0.21 and 4.0.x before 4.0.5 for Ruby allows local users to cause a denial of service (prevent application start) or gain privileges by pre-creating a temporary "config" file in a directory with a predictable name in `/tmp/` before it is used by the gem.
Exploit probability
0.4%
Published
October 24, 2017
Required by
Not available
Last source change
December 8, 2024
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
56 explicit affected versions
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
GHSA-9qj7-jvg4-qr2x
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Phusion Passenger gem before 3.0.21 and 4.0.x before 4.0.5 for Ruby allows local users to cause a denial of service (prevent application start) or gain privileges by pre-creating a temporary "config" file in a directory with a predictable name in `/tmp/` before it is used by the gem.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/05/29/phusion-passenger-3-0-21-released
- http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/05/29/phusion-passenger-4-0-5-released
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1136.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:1136
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-2119
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892813
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9qj7-jvg4-qr2x
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/passenger/CVE-2013-2119.yml
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-2119