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CVE-2014-1832
Phusion Passenger 4.0.37 allows local users to write to certain files and directories via a symlink attack on (1) control_process.pid or a…
- 2.1LowCVSS base score
- 0.37%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 69% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Phusion Passenger 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. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-1831.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 13 months later
· 13 months later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low2.1 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.37% · top 69% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemspassengerGHSA-qw8w-2xcp-xg59 (opens in a new tab)
References
6
- [oss-security] 20140129 Re: CVE request: temporary file issue in Passenger rubygem (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736958 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150130 Re: CVE request: temporary file issue in Passenger rubygem (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1058992 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-1151 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/94428057c602da3d6d34ef75c78091066ecac5c0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-0670 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-qw8w-2xcp-xg59 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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