Phusion Passenger information disclosure

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...

Phusion Passenger incorrect permission assignment

An issue was discovered in switchGroup in agent/ExecHelper/ExecHelperMain.cpp in Phusion Passenger before 5.3.2. The set of groups gidset is not set correctly, leaving it up to randomness i.e., uninitialized memory which supplementary groups are actually being set while lowering privileges...

GHSA-8MW8-J583-VQFG RubyGems passenger gem allows remote attackers to delete files

RubyGems passenger 4.0.0 betas 1 and 2 allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files during the startup process. Affects both open source and Enterprise versions 4.0.0.beta1, 4.0.0.beta2...

RubyGems passenger gem allows remote attackers to delete files

RubyGems passenger 4.0.0 betas 1 and 2 allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files during the startup process. Affects both open source and Enterprise versions 4.0.0.beta1, 4.0.0.beta2...

USN-5261-1: Phusion Passenger vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Phusion Passenger incorrectly handled a file path in the application root folder. An attacker could possibly use this issue to read arbitrary files. CVE-2017-16355 It was discovered that Phusion Passenger had a race condition in the nginx module that could be used to perfor...

USN-5261-1 passenger vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Phusion Passenger incorrectly handled a file path in the application root folder. An attacker could possibly use this issue to read arbitrary files. CVE-2017-16355 It was discovered that Phusion Passenger had a race condition in the nginx module that could be used to perfor...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2013-0205)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2013-0253)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Airline Passenger Mistakes Vintage Camera for a Bomb

I feel sorry for the accused: The "security incident" that forced a New-York bound flight to make an emergency landing at LaGuardia Airport on Saturday turned out to be a misunderstanding -- after an airline passenger mistook another travelers camera for a bomb, sources said Sunday. American...

The Cloud in the clouds

Heading back to the airport to sit in another 747 pilot seat chair is always exciting. After our first research session on a grounded airplane this time we spent more time looking at the IFE In-Flight Entertainment system. We found very different results from the first plane. Rather than an old...

Why hackers don’t fly coach

Physical security is relied on too heavily for cabin-based systems on the Airline Information Services Domain AISD. Whilst the Aircraft Control Domain ACD is separated, there are still plenty of interesting information, data and systems that are accessible from the cabin, for those who are prepar...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2018:0262-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2018:2039-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2015:2337-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Air India Hack Exposes Credit Card and Passport Info of 4.5 Million Passengers

India's flag carrier airline, Air India, has disclosed a data breach affecting 4.5 million of its customers over a period stretching nearly 10 years after its Passenger Service System PSS provider SITA fell victim to a cyber attack earlier this year. The breach involves personal data registered...

Phone Cloning Scam

A newspaper in Malaysia is reporting on a cell phone cloning scam. The scammer convinces the victim to lend them their cell phone, and the scammer quickly clones it. Whats clever about this scam is that the victim is an Uber driver and the scammer is the passenger, so the driver is naturally busy...

Sprawling Cyberattack Breaches Several Airlines

A communications and IT vendor for 90 percent of the world’s airlines, SITA, has been breached, compromising passenger data stored on the company’s U.S. servers in what the company is calling a “highly sophisticated attack.” The affected servers are in Atlanta, and belong to the SITA Passenger...

Speed 2 – The Poseidon Adventure – Part One

This post is a companion to the DEF CON 28 video available here This is a tale of how we tested a brand new cruise ship over the course of a week. TL;DR How fire zone safety design affects security When ballasting control goes wrong Where maritime tech providers let security down, badly Are IMO &...

Arbitrary File Read And Write

SpawningKit in passenger is vulnerable to arbitrary file read and write. The vulnerability exiss as it was possible to read or write a file outside the work directory through symbolic links...

In Flight Entertainment System Security

Contrary to alarmist stories in the press, it really isn’t practically possible to hack an airplane from the in-flight entertainment system IFE/IFEC. The ‘C’ adds Connectivity, so internet access Whilst earlier moving map systems did take a feed from the flight management system, particularly so...