In short
- CVE-2013-4136 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.4) vulnerability affecting passenger, passenger (phusion).
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.33%, higher than 25.7% of all vulnerabilities.
- Fix: update to 4.0.6 or later.
| Package | Affected versions | Patched versions |
|---|
| passenger RubyGems | < 4.0.6
| 4.0.6
|
| passenger | = 4.0.1= 4.0.2= 4.0.3= 4.0.4≤ 4.0.5
| No fix yet |
Description
ext/common/ServerInstanceDir.h in Phusion Passenger gem before 4.0.6 for Ruby allows local users to gain privileges or possibly change the ownership of arbitrary directories via a symlink attack on a directory with a predictable name in /tmp/.
NVD description
ext/common/ServerInstanceDir.h in Phusion Passenger gem before 4.0.6 for Ruby allows local users to gain privileges or possibly change the ownership of arbitrary directories via a symlink attack on a directory with a predictable name in /tmp/.
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