CVE-2013-4136

ext/common/ServerInstanceDir.h in Phusion Passenger gem before 4.0.6 for Ruby allows local users to gain privileges or possibly change the ownership of arbitrary directories via a symlink attack on a directory with a predictable name in /tmp/.

Score

CVSS 2.0 4.4 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2013-09-30

Last modified

2024-09-17

Weaknesses

CWE-59

Affected products

• Passenger (Phusion)

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1136.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/16/6
• https://code.google.com/p/phusion-passenger/issues/detail?id=910
• https://github.com/phusion/passenger/blob/release-4.0.6/NEWS
• https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/5483b3292cc2af1c83033eaaadec20dba4dcfd9b