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CVE-2017-16355
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.7
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-12-14T22:29:00.210 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:09:14.073

Summary

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 --show=xml.

Affected products

phusion — passenger

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References

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