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FKIE_CVE-2013-2119

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2014-01-03 18:54 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:52
Severity
Summary
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 name in /tmp/ before it is used by the gem.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://blog.phusion.nl/2013/05/29/phusion-passenger-3-0-21-released/Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://blog.phusion.nl/2013/05/29/phusion-passenger-4-0-5-released/Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1136.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892813Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/05/29/phusion-passenger-3-0-21-released/Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/05/29/phusion-passenger-4-0-5-released/Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1136.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892813Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
phusion passenger *
phusion passenger 3.0.0
phusion passenger 3.0.1
phusion passenger 3.0.2
phusion passenger 3.0.3
phusion passenger 3.0.4
phusion passenger 3.0.5
phusion passenger 3.0.6
phusion passenger 3.0.7
phusion passenger 3.0.8
phusion passenger 3.0.9
phusion passenger 3.0.10
phusion passenger 3.0.11
phusion passenger 3.0.12
phusion passenger 3.0.13
phusion passenger 3.0.14
phusion passenger 3.0.15
phusion passenger 3.0.17
phusion passenger 3.0.18
phusion passenger 3.0.19
phusion passenger 4.0.1
phusion passenger 4.0.2
phusion passenger 4.0.3
phusion passenger 4.0.4
ruby-lang ruby *
redhat openshift 1.0
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