Vulnerability in Phusion Passenger
CVE-2014-1831
Phusion Passenger before 4.0.37 allows local users to write to certain files and directories via a symlink attack on (1) control_process.pid or a (2) generation-* file.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 2.1 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (28.4th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 28th percentile — 28.4% 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
References
- bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
- github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/34b1087870c2
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/30/3 (mailing-list)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/149032.html (vendor-advisory)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/28/8 (mailing-list)