GHSA-whfx-877c-5p28HighCVSS 8.8

Insecure Permissions in Phusion Passenger

Published
May 13, 2022
Last Modified
June 28, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

An Insecure Permissions vulnerability in SpawningKit in Phusion Passenger 5.3.x before 5.3.2 causes information disclosure in the following situation: given a Passenger-spawned application process that reports that it listens on a certain Unix domain socket, if any of the parent directories of said socket are writable by a normal user that is not the application's user, then that non-application user can swap that directory with something else, resulting in traffic being redirected to a non-application user's process through an alternative Unix domain socket.

🎯 Affected products1

  • rubygems/passenger:>= 5.3.0, < 5.3.2

🔗 References (5)