CVE-2017-16355

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Summary

CVECVE-2017-16355
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-12-14 22:29:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-20 01:37:25 UTC
DescriptionIn 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.1 4.7 MEDIUM from [email protected]

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS: 0.001360000 probability, percentile 0.329950000 (date 2026-05-18)

Problem Types: CWE-200 | n/a

VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
3.1[email protected]Primary4.7MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
2.0[email protected]Primary1.2AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS v3.1 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

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

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Phusion Passenger All All All All
Application Phusion Passenger All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4415-1 passenger af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
Bugtraq: [SECURITY] [DSA 4415-1] passenger security update af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 seclists.org Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Disable unused feature. · phusion/passenger@4043718 · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Security advisory [CVE-2017-16355]: arbitrary file read vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 blog.phusion.nl Third Party Advisory
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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