LOW

GHSA-qw8w-2xcp-xg59

Insecure use of temporary files in Phusion passenger

Quick fix

GHSA-qw8w-2xcp-xg59 — passenger: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

bundle update passenger

Details

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.

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Affected packages

RubyGems/passenger

Introduced in: 4.0.37Fixed in: 4.0.38

Fixbundle update passenger

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-1832[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/94428057c602da3d6d34ef75c78091066ecac5c0[WEB]
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736958[WEB]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1058992[WEB]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qw8w-2xcp-xg59[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/phusion/passenger[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/passenger/CVE-2014-1832.yml[WEB]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/149032.html[WEB]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/29/6[WEB]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/30/3[WEB]