Vulnerability in Phusion Passenger
CVE-2013-4136
ext/common/ServerInstanceDir.h in Phusion Passenger gem before 4.0.6 for Ruby allows local users to gain privileges or possibly change the ownership of arbitrary directories via a symlink attack on a directory with a predictable name in /tmp/.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.4 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.003 (23.5th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 24th percentile — 23.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Phusion Passenger — versions 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3
- Ruby-Lang Ruby
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- github.com/phusion/passenger/blob/release-4.0.6/NEWS
- code.google.com/p/phusion-passenger/issues/detail
- github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/5483b3292cc2af1c83033eaaadec20dba4dcfd9b
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1136.html (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/16/6 (mailing-list)