CVE-2017-16355

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...

CVE-2017-16355

CVE-2017-16355 affects Phusion Passenger 5.1.10 (fixed in Open Source 5.1.11 and Enterprise 5.1.10). When Passenger runs as root, an attacker can read arbitrary files by symlinking the REVISION file from the application root to a target file and querying passenger-status --show=xml, enabling a lo...