Vulnerability in Phusion Passenger
CVE-2013-2119
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.6 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (31.7th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 32nd percentile — 31.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Phusion Passenger — versions 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2
- Ruby-Lang Ruby
- Red Hat Openshift — versions 1.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1136.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- blog.phusion.nl/2013/05/29/phusion-passenger-3-0-21-released/ (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- blog.phusion.nl/2013/05/29/phusion-passenger-4-0-5-released/ (Patch, Vendor Advisory)