CVE-2014-1831
Low
CVE-2014-1831
Phusion Passenger before 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.
Exploit probability
0.4%
Published
February 19, 2015
Required by
Not available
Last source change
April 10, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
89 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2014-1831
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Phusion Passenger before 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.
Open Source Vulnerabilities
GHSA-c7j7-p5jq-26ff
View original source
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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/149032.html
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/28/8
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/30/3
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736958
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1058992
- https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/34b1087870c2
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c7j7-p5jq-26ff
- https://github.com/phusion/passenger
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/passenger/CVE-2014-1831.yml
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-1831