In 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-12-14T22:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T20:20:05.642Z

Reserved: 2017-11-01T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-16355

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-12-14T22:29:00.210

Modified: 2019-10-28T15:31:55.957

Link: CVE-2017-16355

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-10-16T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-16355 - Bugzilla