GHSA-9qj7-jvg4-qr2x

Phusion Passenger Denial of Service

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2013-2119

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
RubyGems	passenger	< 3.0.21	3.0.21
RubyGems	passenger	>= 4.0.1, < 4.0.5	4.0.5

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

Phusion Passenger gem before 3.0.21 and 4.0.x before 4.0.5 for Ruby allows local users to cause a denial of service (prevent application start) or gain privileges by pre-creating a temporary "config" file in a directory with a predictable name in `/tmp/` before it is used by the gem.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-2119 advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:1136 web
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-2119 web
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892813 web
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9qj7-jvg4-qr2x advisory
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/passenger/CVE-2013-2119.yml web
http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/05/29/phusion-passenger-3-0-21-released web
http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/05/29/phusion-passenger-4-0-5-released web
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1136.html web