CVE-2017-16355
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-16355
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-16355.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-16355
- Aliases
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2017-12-14T22:29:00.210Z
- Modified
- 2026-02-13T08:09:51.232969Z
- Severity
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- 4.7 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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.
- References
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- https://blog.phusion.nl/2017/10/13/passenger-security-advisory-5-1-11/
- https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/4043718264095cde6623c2cbe8c644541036d7bf
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/34
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4415
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/34
- https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/4043718264095cde6623c2cbe8c644541036d7bf
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/34