CVE-2014-1831

Published: Feb 19, 2015Modified: May 6, 2026

2.1

Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 2.9

Source: NVD

Description

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.

Affected (1)

Products: Phusion: Passenger

Phusion

1 product

Passenger

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Phusion Passenger	Up to 4.0.36

References (12)

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/149032.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/28/8

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/30/3

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736958

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1058992

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/34b1087870c2

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/149032.html