CVE-2014-1831
low
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
2.1
Description
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 4.0.37-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 4.0.37-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 4.0.37-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 4.0.37-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 4.0.37-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| phusion | passenger | {"endIncluding":"4.0.36"} | |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-1831
- 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://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c7j7-p5jq-26ff
- https://github.com/phusion/passenger
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/passenger/CVE-2014-1831.yml
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-1831
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.