GHSA-c7j7-p5jq-26ff

Insecure use of temporary files in passenger

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Low CVE-2014-1831

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
RubyGems	passenger	< 4.0.38	4.0.38

Details

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

Phusion Passenger before 4.0.38 allows local users to write to certain files and directories via a symlink attack on 1. `control_process.pid` or 2. a generation-* file.

References

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

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-1831 advisory
https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/34b1087870c2 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-c7j7-p5jq-26ff advisory
https://github.com/phusion/passenger package
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/passenger/CVE-2014-1831.yml web
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/149032.html web
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/28/8 web
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/30/3 web