Security Advisory

CVE-2017-16355

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-12-14 22:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 20:20:05
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

In agent/Core/SpawningKit/Spawner.h in Phusion Passenger 5.1.10 (fixed in Passenger Open Source 5.1.11 and Passenger Enterprise 5.1.10), if Passenger is running as root, it is possible to list the contents of arbitrary files on a system by symlinking a file named REVISION from the application root folder to a file of choice and querying passenger-status --show=xml.