passenger
RubyGems14 known CVEs affecting this package
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- CVE-2012-6135HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.5✓ Fixed in 4.0.0.rc42019-11-19
vulnerable: 1.0.1 ... 3.9.2.beta (55 versions)
RubyGems passenger 4.0.0 betas 1 and 2 allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files during the startup process.
- CVE-2013-2119NONECVSS 0.0EG 0.0✓ Fixed in 4.0.52014-01-03
vulnerable: 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4
Phusion Passenger gem before 3.0.21 and 4.0.x before 4.0.5 for Ruby allows local users to cause a denial of service (prevent application start) or gain privileges by pre-creating a temporary "config" file in a directory with a predictable …
- CVE-2013-4136NONECVSS 0.0EG 0.0✓ Fixed in 4.0.62013-09-30
vulnerable: 1.0.1 ... 4.0.5 (62 versions)
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 /t…
- CVE-2014-1831NONECVSS 0.0EG 0.0✓ Fixed in 4.0.382015-02-19
vulnerable: 1.0.1 ... 4.0.8 (89 versions)
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.
- CVE-2014-1832NONECVSS 0.0EG 0.0✓ Fixed in 4.0.382015-02-19
vulnerable: 4.0.37
Phusion Passenger 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. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-18…
- CVE-2015-7519LOWCVSS 3.7EG 3.7✓ Fixed in 5.0.222016-01-08
vulnerable: 5.0.1 ... 5.0.9 (20 versions)
agent/Core/Controller/SendRequest.cpp in Phusion Passenger before 4.0.60 and 5.0.x before 5.0.22, when used in Apache integration mode or in standalone mode without a filtering proxy, allows remote attackers to spoof headers passed to appl…
- CVE-2016-10345HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.8✓ Fixed in 5.1.02017-04-18
vulnerable: 1.0.1 ... 5.0.9 (144 versions)
In Phusion Passenger before 5.1.0, a known /tmp filename was used during passenger-install-nginx-module execution, which could allow local attackers to gain the privileges of the passenger user.
- CVE-2017-16355MEDIUMCVSS 4.7EG 4.7✓ Fixed in 5.1.112017-12-14
vulnerable: 1.0.1 ... 5.1.9 (155 versions)
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…
- CVE-2018-12026CRITICALCVSS 9.8EG 9.8✓ Fixed in 5.3.22018-06-17
vulnerable: 5.3.0, 5.3.1
During the spawning of a malicious Passenger-managed application, SpawningKit in Phusion Passenger 5.3.x before 5.3.2 allows such applications to replace key files or directories in the spawning communication directory with symlinks. This …
- CVE-2018-12027HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.8✓ Fixed in 5.3.22018-06-17
vulnerable: 5.3.0, 5.3.1
An Insecure Permissions vulnerability in SpawningKit in Phusion Passenger 5.3.x before 5.3.2 causes information disclosure in the following situation: given a Passenger-spawned application process that reports that it listens on a certain …
- CVE-2018-12028HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.8✓ Fixed in 5.3.22018-06-17
vulnerable: 5.3.0, 5.3.1
An Incorrect Access Control vulnerability in SpawningKit in Phusion Passenger 5.3.x before 5.3.2 allows a Passenger-managed malicious application, upon spawning a child process, to report an arbitrary different PID back to Passenger's proc…
- CVE-2018-12029HIGHCVSS 7.0EG 7.0✓ Fixed in 5.3.22018-06-17
vulnerable: 3.0.0 ... 5.3.1 (130 versions)
A race condition in the nginx module in Phusion Passenger 3.x through 5.x before 5.3.2 allows local escalation of privileges when a non-standard passenger_instance_registry_dir with insufficiently strict permissions is configured. Replacin…
- CVE-2018-12615MEDIUMCVSS 5.3EG 5.3✓ Fixed in 5.3.22018-06-21
vulnerable: 1.0.1 ... 5.3.1 (163 versions)
An issue was discovered in switchGroup() in agent/ExecHelper/ExecHelperMain.cpp in Phusion Passenger before 5.3.2. The set of groups (gidset) is not set correctly, leaving it up to randomness (i.e., uninitialized memory) which supplementar…
- CVE-2025-26803MEDIUMCVSS 5.3EG 5.3✓ Fixed in 6.0.262025-02-24
vulnerable: 6.0.21, 6.0.22, 6.0.23, 6.0.24, 6.0.25
The http parser in Phusion Passenger 6.0.21 through 6.0.25 before 6.0.26 allows a denial of service during parsing of a request with an invalid HTTP method.
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