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CVE-2014-1832

Phusion Passenger 4.0.37 allows local users to write to certain files and directories via a symlink attack on (1) contro

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.

LOW · CVSS 2.1 EPSS 0.00067
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Affected Products & Versions

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phusion passenger<= 4.0.36
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Affected Packages

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Language-ecosystem packages (from OSV) tied to this CVE, with the version that fixes it - the dependency-level detail NVD doesn’t carry.
RubyGems passenger LOW fixed in 4.0.38
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Scoring & Timeline

2.1
LOW · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Published to NVD19 Feb 2015 · 03:59 PM
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Vendor Advisories

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suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:11341-1
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References & Sources

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Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
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/phusion/passenger/commit/94428057c602da3d6d34ef75c78091066ecac5c0
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