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CVE-2014-1831

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Date: February 19, 2015

Phusion Passenger before 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.

Language: Ruby

Severity Score

4.0

Related Resources (11)

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/149032.html

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/28/8

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-1831

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/30/3

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1058992

Url: https://github.com/phusion/passenger

Url: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736958

Url: https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/34b1087870c2

Url: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c7j7-p5jq-26ff

Url: https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/passenger/CVE-2014-1831.yml

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2014-1831

Severity Score

4.0

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version passenger - 4.0.38

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	4.0
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:	2.1
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	NONE
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