CVE-2014-1832

Description

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-2014-1831.

References

https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/94428057c602da3d6d34ef75c78091066ecac5c0

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

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

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

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/29/6

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3