CVE-2014-1832
Low
Insecure use of temporary files in Phusion passenger
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.
Exploit probability
0.4%
Published
October 10, 2018
Required by
Not available
Last source change
November 8, 2023
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
1 explicit affected versions
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
GHSA-qw8w-2xcp-xg59
View original source
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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/149032.html
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/29/6
- 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/advisories/GHSA-qw8w-2xcp-xg59
- https://github.com/phusion/passenger
- https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/94428057c602da3d6d34ef75c78091066ecac5c0
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/passenger/CVE-2014-1832.yml
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-1832