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Phusion Passenger Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Vulnerability - CVE-2017-16355 - Vulnerability Database
Phusion Passenger

Phusion Passenger Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Vulnerability - CVE-2017-16355

Medium
Reference: CVE-2017-16355
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16355
Title: Phusion Passenger Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Vulnerability
Overview:

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 folder to a file of choice and querying passenger-status --showxml.