Vulnerability Details CVE-2017-16355
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 34.2%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 4.7
CVSS v2 Score 1.2
Products affected by CVE-2017-16355
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cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:5.0.10
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cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:5.0.11
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cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:5.0.12
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cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:5.0.13
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cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:5.0.14
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cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:5.0.15
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cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:5.0.16
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cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:5.0.17
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cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:5.0.18
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cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:5.0.19
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cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:5.0.20
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cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:5.0.21
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cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:5.0.22
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cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:5.0.23
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cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:5.0.24
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cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:5.0.25
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cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:5.0.26
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cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:5.0.27
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cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:5.0.28
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cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:5.0.29
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cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:5.0.30
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cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:5.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:5.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:5.1.10
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cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:5.1.2
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cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:5.1.3
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cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:5.1.4
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cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:5.1.5
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cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:5.1.6
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cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:5.1.7
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cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:5.1.8
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cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:5.1.9
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0