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...

The vulnerability in the Phusion Passenger web server relates to the possibility of creating a symbolic link between a REVISION file and an arbitrary file in the system. This allows a malicious actor to gain access to confidential data.

The vulnerability in the Phusion Passenger web server relates to the ability to create symbolic links between a REVISION field and any arbitrary file in the system. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to gain access to confidential data...

The vulnerability of the nginx web server module in Phusion Passenger, related to the simultaneous use of shared resources and synchronization errors, allows attackers to gain access to confidential data.

The vulnerability of the nginx web server module in Phusion Passenger is related to the simultaneous use of a shared resource and synchronization errors when the passengerinstanceregistrydir configuration is not set strictly enough. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to gain acce...

Denial Of Service (DoS) Or Escalation Of Privileges

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...

GHSA-QW8W-2XCP-XG59 Insecure use of temporary files in Phusion passenger

Phusion Passenger 4.0.37 allows local users to write to certain files and directories via a symlink attack on 1 controlprocess.pid or a 2 generation- file. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-1831...

Insecure use of temporary files in Phusion passenger

Phusion Passenger 4.0.37 allows local users to write to certain files and directories via a symlink attack on 1 controlprocess.pid or a 2 generation- file. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-1831...

Insecure use of temporary files in passenger

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

GHSA-C7J7-P5JQ-26FF Insecure use of temporary files in passenger

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

GHSA-FXWV-953P-7QPF Phusion Passenger allows remote attackers to spoof headers

agent/Core/Controller/SendRequest.cpp in Phusion Passenger before 4.0.60 and 5.0.x before 5.0.22, when used in Apache integration mode or in standalone mode without a filtering proxy, allows remote attackers to spoof headers passed to applications by using an underscore character instead of a -...

Phusion Passenger allows remote attackers to spoof headers

agent/Core/Controller/SendRequest.cpp in Phusion Passenger before 4.0.60 and 5.0.x before 5.0.22, when used in Apache integration mode or in standalone mode without a filtering proxy, allows remote attackers to spoof headers passed to applications by using an underscore character instead of a -...

GHSA-CQXW-3P7V-P9GR Phusion Passenger uses a known /tmp filename

In Phusion Passenger before 5.1.0, a known /tmp filename was used during passenger-install-nginx-module execution, which could allow local attackers to gain the privileges of the passenger user...

Phusion Passenger uses a known /tmp filename

In Phusion Passenger before 5.1.0, a known /tmp filename was used during passenger-install-nginx-module execution, which could allow local attackers to gain the privileges of the passenger user...

Multiple Vulnerabilities in Phusion Passenger SpawningKit

Phusion Passenger is an Apache module from Phusion Netherlands for deploying Ruby on Rails projects on Apache and Nginx web servers.SpawningKit is one of the components. A security vulnerability exists in SpawningKit in version 5.3.x of Phusion Passenger prior to 5.3.2. An attacker can exploit th...

Phusion Passenger SpawningKit Access Control Error Vulnerability

Phusion Passenger is an Apache module from Phusion Netherlands for deploying Ruby on Rails projects on Apache and Nginx web servers.SpawningKit is one of the components. An access control error vulnerability exists in SpawningKit in versions 5.3.x prior to Phusion Passenger 5.3.2. An attacker cou...

Phusion Passenger nginx module elevation of privilege vulnerability

Phusion Passenger is an Apache module from the Dutch company Phusion for deploying Ruby on Rails projects on Apache and Nginx web servers. nginx module is one of the Nginx server modules. A security vulnerability in the nginx module in Phusion Passenger versions 5.3.2 through 3.x excluding versio...

Phusion Passenger SpawningKit Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Phusion Passenger is an Apache module from the Dutch company Phusion for deploying Ruby on Rails projects on Apache and Nginx web servers.SpawningKit is one of the components. A security vulnerability exists in SpawningKit in version 5.3.x of Phusion Passenger prior to 5.3.2. An attacker could...

Unspecified Vulnerability in Phusion Passenger

Phusion Passenger is an Apache module for deploying Ruby on Rails projects on Apache and Nginx web servers from Phusion Netherlands. A security vulnerability exists in the 'switchGroup' function in the agent/ExecHelper/ExecHelperMain.cpp file in Phusion Passenger, which stems from the program...

CVE-2018-12615

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...

Privilege Escalation

Phusion Passenger is vulnerable to privilege escalation. The gidset variable that manages group permissions is not set properly, leaving group permissions to be assigned at random due to a uninitialized buffer...

Code injection

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...