CVE-2014-1831

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Summary

CVECVE-2014-1831
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-02-19 15:59:02 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionPhusion Passenger before 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 2.1 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Partial
Availability
None

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Phusion Passenger All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - CVE request: temporary file issue in Passenger rubygem af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 openwall.com
oss-security - Re: CVE request: temporary file issue in Passenger rubygem af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 openwall.com
Fix low-urgency security vulnerability: writing files to arbitrary di… · phusion/passenger@34b1087 · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com
Bug 1058992 – CVE-2014-1831 CVE-2014-1832 rubygem-passenger: insecure use of temporary files af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: rubygem-passenger-4.0.53-3.fc20 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org
#736958 - ruby-passenger: CVE-2014-1831: insecure use of /tmp - Debian Bug report logs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.debian.org
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