CVE-2014-1831 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Phusion 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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00067.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Phusion Subscribe	Passenger Subscribe

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:phusion:passenger:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2018-0570	Phusion 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.
Github GHSA	GHSA-c7j7-p5jq-26ff	Insecure use of temporary files in passenger

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/149032.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/28/8
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/30/3
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736958
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1058992
https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/34b1087870c2
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-1831
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-1831

History

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Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2015-02-19T15:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T09:50:11.383Z

Reserved: 2014-01-30T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2014-1831

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2015-02-19T15:59:02.047

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2014-1831

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2014-01-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-1831 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

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