Phusion Passenger Improper Link Resolution Before File Access (Link Following) Vulnerability - CVE-2013-4136 - Vulnerability Database

Phusion Passenger Improper Link Resolution Before File Access (Link Following) Vulnerability - CVE-2013-4136

Medium

Reference: CVE-2013-4136

NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4136

Title: Phusion Passenger Improper Link Resolution Before File Access (Link Following) Vulnerability

Overview:

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/.