Local Privilege Escalation via Symlink Attack in Phusion Passenger 4.0.37

Local Privilege Escalation via Symlink Attack in Phusion Passenger 4.0.37

CVE-2014-1832 · LOW Severity

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

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.

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