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/.
Published: 2013-09-30
Score: 4.4 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-0321 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/.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-w6rc-q387-vpgq insecure temporary directory usage in passenger
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Phusion Passenger
Redhat Openshift
Ruby-lang Ruby
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-17T03:38:39.532Z

Reserved: 2013-06-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2013-4136

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2013-09-30T21:55:07.223

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2013-4136

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2013-06-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2013-4136 - Bugzilla

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